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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-04-10 21:17:09 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-04-10 21:17:09 +0300
commit15122b31040f8945d0998510abd52c7735b36bc7 (patch)
tree423594f4647cfeb0cb35a843d86596780c2392e0
parentbe8328acf9aa464f848e682e63e417a18529af9e (diff)
downloademacs-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.