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authorStefan Agner <stefan.agner@toradex.com>2017-09-26 16:04:08 +0200
committerStefan Agner <stefan.agner@toradex.com>2017-09-26 18:11:18 +0200
commit1f4d46cea2bc1886a13ae9adfcd9e4243eed6a4c (patch)
tree2001999c70f8e46b192fc552590810aab35710e3 /Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
parentd152ae9d4704d8c7b3775e3b1a20e62aa3b1eed8 (diff)
parentb52c9082f2eb3a6f7fbbc86fad3eaa2a1725da66 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.4.88' into toradex_vf_4.4-next
This is the 4.4.88 stable release
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index af70d1541d3a..be61d53e997f 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -810,14 +810,13 @@ via the /proc/sys interface:
Each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value to be
written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor
will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position.
- 0 - (default) Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that
- perform writes to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position
- is not 0.
- 1 - Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple writes
- will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max length
- of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric sysctl
- entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must be
- fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall.
+ 0 - Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that perform writes
+ to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position is not 0.
+ 1 - (default) Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple
+ writes will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max
+ length of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric
+ sysctl entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must
+ be fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall.
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