diff options
| author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2022-01-03 23:43:41 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2022-01-03 23:43:42 +0000 |
| commit | 877bb58741a7d370aca0524370dfe59a70c1a064 (patch) | |
| tree | 50f250bb4a4b1c7eec074d6e058739aa5b1ae129 /man/man1 | |
| parent | c7d5b636c309e25959bc70e0ddb9d293d846f55c (diff) | |
Document MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP and PIPELINE_DEBUG
Fixes Debian bug #941622.
* man/man1/man.man1 (ENVIRONMENT): Document MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP and
PIPELINE_DEBUG.
* man/po4a/po/man-db-manpages.pot, man/po4a/po/*.po: Update.
* NEWS: Document this.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man1')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/man.man1 | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/man.man1 b/man/man1/man.man1 index f2b7080a..76bfbb68 100644 --- a/man/man1/man.man1 +++ b/man/man1/man.man1 @@ -1219,6 +1219,26 @@ However, some users want to see them anyway, so, if .RB $ MAN_KEEP_STDERR is set to any non-empty value, error output will be displayed as usual. .TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .B MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP +On Linux, +.B %man% +normally confines subprocesses that handle untrusted data using a +.BR seccomp (2) +sandbox. +This makes it safer to run complex parsing code over arbitrary manual pages. +If this goes wrong for some reason unrelated to the content of the page +being displayed, you can set +.RB $ MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP +to any non-empty value to disable the sandbox. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .B PIPELINE_DEBUG +If the +.RB $ PIPELINE_DEBUG +environment variable is set to "1", then +.B %man% +will print debugging messages to standard error describing each subprocess +it runs. +.TP .if !'po4a'hide' .BR LANG , " LC_MESSAGES" Depending on system and implementation, either or both of .RB $ LANG |