From: beck <beck@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:30:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document the current limitation (we don't yet find an above covering
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document the current limitation (we don't yet find an above covering
unveil for relative operations) that I am working on in BUGS
---

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/unveil.2 b/lib/libc/sys/unveil.2
index 4c3a9b0ff8e..69dbd327dbf 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/unveil.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/unveil.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: unveil.2,v 1.6 2018/07/28 18:06:30 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: unveil.2,v 1.7 2018/07/30 00:30:15 beck Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2018 Bob Beck <beck@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 28 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 30 2018 $
 .Dt UNVEIL 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -155,6 +155,16 @@ was not accessible, or
 .Nm
 was called after it was locked.
 .El
+.Sh BUGS
+Filesystem lookups work today when they cross an
+.Fn unveil
+during
+.Xr namei 9 lookup in the kernel. A program that
+does relative operations below a higher
+.Fn unveil
+may currently not see the parts of the filesystem
+underneath the high level unveil. This is actively
+being worked on. 
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn unveil