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diff --git a/share/man/man4/filemon.4 b/share/man/man4/filemon.4 index 585428b..fe0c430 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 @@ -172,3 +184,12 @@ A .Nm device appeared in .Fx 9.1 . +.Sh BUGS +Loading +.Nm +may reduce system performance for the noted syscalls. +.Pp +Only children of the set process are logged. +Processes can escape being traced by double forking. +This is not seen as a problem as the intended use is build monitoring, which +does not make sense to have daemons for. |
