Revert to Fedora kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 patched with vs2.0.2.1; there are too many...

[linux-2.6.git] / Documentation / sysctl / kernel.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 65285a4..b0c7ab9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ before actually making adjustments.
 
 Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration)
 show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
+- acpi_video_flags
 - acct
 - core_pattern
 - core_uses_pid
@@ -57,6 +58,15 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 
 ==============================================================
 
+acpi_video_flags:
+
+flags
+
+See Doc*/kernel/power/video.txt, it allows mode of video boot to be
+set during run time.
+
+==============================================================
+
 acct:
 
 highwater lowwater frequency
@@ -310,11 +320,11 @@ or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are
        privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped
 1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is
        owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is
-       intended for system debugging situations only.
-2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally not be dumped is dumped
+       intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked.
+2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped
        readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove
        such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons
-       core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or 
+       core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or
        other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are
        attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.