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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Various minor grammar fixes.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/de8fb7166413
branches: trunk
changeset: 571027:de8fb7166413
user: rumble <rumble%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Tue Nov 09 04:57:31 2004 +0000
description:
Various minor grammar fixes.
diffstat:
share/man/man4/lkm.4 | 14 +++++++-------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diffs (39 lines):
diff -r 2b9bd27f50dc -r de8fb7166413 share/man/man4/lkm.4
--- a/share/man/man4/lkm.4 Mon Nov 08 21:30:05 2004 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/lkm.4 Tue Nov 09 04:57:31 2004 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: lkm.4,v 1.19 2004/05/11 22:42:47 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: lkm.4,v 1.20 2004/11/09 04:57:31 rumble Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
drivers may be loaded into the system with
.Li "options LKM" .
A problem with loading a device driver is that the driver's device
-nodes must be exist for the devices to be accessed. They are
+nodes must exist for the devices to be accessed. They are
usually created by instructing
.Xr modload 8
to run an appropriate program when the driver has been successfully loaded.
@@ -120,15 +120,15 @@
an appropriately layered console driver.
.Sh NOTES
.Ss Security considerations
-Loaded kernel module can do anything with kernel structures. There is
-no memory protection between module and rest of kernel. Hence, potential
-attacker controlling
+Loaded kernel modules can do anything with kernel structures. There is
+no memory protection between modules and the rest of the kernel. Hence,
+a potential attacker controlling
.Pa /dev/lkm
can do anything they want with the system.
.Pp
-To avoid associated security risk, new LKMs cannot be loaded on
+To avoid associated security risks, new LKMs cannot be loaded when
.Pa securelevel
-higher than zero.
+is higher than zero.
.Ss Module might crash system
Loading and using a buggy module is likely to crash operating system -
since the module becomes part of kernel, a code error is much more
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