[PATCH] seccomp.2: Clarify that bad system calls kill the thread

Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-30T20:12:12Z

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
man2/seccomp.2 | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/seccomp.2 b/man2/seccomp.2
index a3421871f0f4..bde54c3e3e99 100644
--- a/man2/seccomp.2
+++ b/man2/seccomp.2
@@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ The only system calls that the calling thread is permitted to make are
.BR exit_group (2)),
and
.BR sigreturn (2).
-Other system calls result in the delivery of a
+Other system calls result in the termination of the calling thread,
+or termination of the entire process with the
.BR SIGKILL
-signal.
+signal when there is only one thread.
Strict secure computing mode is useful for number-crunching
applications that may need to execute untrusted byte code, perhaps
obtained by reading from a pipe or socket.
--
2.29.2