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authorNathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>2002-09-07 00:20:21 +0000
committerNathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>2002-09-07 00:20:21 +0000
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Updates from AndreasG.
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diff --git a/man/man5/attr.5 b/man/man5/attr.5
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--- a/man/man5/attr.5
+++ b/man/man5/attr.5
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ The file permissions of symbolic links are not used in access
checks. These differences would allow users to consume filesystem resources in
a way not controllable by disk quotas for group or world writable special files and directories.
.PP
-For this reason, extended user attributes
-are disallowed for special files, and access to extended user
-attributes is restricted to the owner or users with appropriate
-capabilities for directories with the sticky bit set (see the
+For this reason, extended user attributes are disallowed for symbolic links and
+special files, and access to extended user attributes is restricted to the
+owner and to users with appropriate capabilities for directories with the
+sticky bit set (see the
.BR chmod (1)
manual page for an explanation of Sticky Directories).
.SS Extended system attributes