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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-04-10 21:17:09 +0300 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-04-10 21:17:09 +0300 |
commit | 15122b31040f8945d0998510abd52c7735b36bc7 (patch) | |
tree | 423594f4647cfeb0cb35a843d86596780c2392e0 | |
parent | be8328acf9aa464f848e682e63e417a18529af9e (diff) | |
download | emacs-15122b31040f8945d0998510abd52c7735b36bc7.tar.gz |
; * etc/NEWS: Fix the wording of a recently added entry.
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@@ -90,14 +90,15 @@ lacks the terminfo database, you can instruct Emacs to support 24-bit true color by setting 'COLORTERM=truecolor' in the environment. This is useful on systems such as FreeBSD which ships only with "etc/termcap". -** On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs now supports loading a Secure Computing -filter. To use this, you can pass a --seccomp=FILE command-line -option to Emacs. FILE must name a binary file containing an array of -'struct sock_filter' structures. Emacs will then install that list of -Secure Computing filters into its own process early during the startup -process. You can use this functionality to put an Emacs process in a -sandbox to avoid security issues when executing untrusted code. See -the manual page for 'seccomp' for details about Secure Computing +** Emacs now supports loading a Secure Computing filter. +This is supported only on capable GNU/Linux systems. To use this, +use the '--seccomp=FILE' command-line option when starting Emacs. +FILE must name a binary file containing an array of 'struct sock_filter' +structures. Emacs will then install that list of Secure Computing +filters into its own process early during the startup process. You +can use this functionality to put an Emacs process in a sandbox to +avoid security issues when executing untrusted code. See the manual +page for 'seccomp' system call, for details about Secure Computing filters. |