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| author | bdrewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-01-29 01:00:12 +0000 |
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| committer | bdrewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-01-29 01:00:12 +0000 |
| commit | ab39a5f58e74fa282b886054f459016b36d74cc2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e6809b7e2cec60ac715e282d52195aad3c7ceee /share/man | |
| parent | 05bb4186fe7470ffedb6642d1c9b9748dce7f1ef (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-ab39a5f58e74fa282b886054f459016b36d74cc2.zip FreeBSD-src-ab39a5f58e74fa282b886054f459016b36d74cc2.tar.gz | |
Document the purpose and non-purpose of filemon(4).
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/filemon.4 | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/filemon.4 b/share/man/man4/filemon.4 index a1522c8..2a3dddd 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/filemon.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/filemon.4 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 14, 2013 +.Dd January 28, 2016 .Dt FILEMON 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ responds to two .Xr ioctl 2 calls. .Pp +.Nm +is not intended to be a security auditing tool. +Many syscalls are not tracked and binaries of foreign ABI will not be fully +audited. +It is intended for auditing of processes for the purpose of determining its +dependencies in an efficient and easily parsable format. +An example of this is +.Xr make 1 +which uses this module with +.Sy .MAKE.MODE=meta +to handle incremental builds more smartly. +.Pp System calls are denoted using the following single letters: .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact @@ -173,3 +185,7 @@ A .Nm device appeared in .Fx 9.1 . +.Sh BUGS +Loading +.Nm +may reduce system performance for the noted syscalls. |
