Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config

[DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>]

Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:
>> >> +.BI [ filter : pattern ]

> Hmmm, then let's say file.  Does that sound good to you?

I mean the "pattern" in the syntax, for this filter, must match the -
well, whatever we call /proc/self/exe (or if that's unavailable,
argv[0]) - for the process.  As noted, it must exactly match either the
entirety of /proc/self/exe or just the basename of it, depending.

So if you want to say "limits the following tunables to processes whose
file name (taken from /proc/self/exe) matches /pattern/" that's OK.

Saying "whose name matches the file" would be wrong, but I don't think
you meant that.