Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] audit: document /proc/PID/loginuid

[Paul Moore]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 9:51 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Describe the /proc/PID/loginuid interface in Documentation/ABI/stable that
> was added 2005-02-01 by commit 1e2d1492e178 ("[PATCH] audit: handle
> loginuid through proc")
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..013bc1d74854
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> +What:          Audit Login UID
> +Date:          2005-02-01
> +KernelVersion: 2.6.11-rc2 1e2d1492e178 ("[PATCH] audit: handle loginuid through proc")
> +Contact:       linux-audit@xxxxxxxxxx
> +Format:                %u (u32)

Existing examples seem to just use the printf format specifier, e.g.
"%u", without the explicit type, e.g. "u32", which seems cleanest to
me.  I would suggest changing this to just "Format: %u" to better fit
existing convention.

> +Users:         auditd, libaudit, audit-testsuite, login

I didn't get an opportunity to reply to the previous thread before you
sent this, but I really don't like listing specific userspace
tools/libraries here.  I recognize that you like the specificity, but
I do not, and I fear that it will become invalid over time either due
to deprecation of old packages or omission of new ones; the fact that
we are just now adding an entry from 2005 shows how this area of
Documentation can often be neglected.

Please replace this with something like "audit and login applications"
or something similar.

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com