Section 7: overview, conventions, and miscellany
kgrantpty – konsole uses this to securely open a slave pty Synopsis kgrantpty [OPTION] [FILE] Description kgrantpty is only intended to be used internally by konsole to open a slave pty securely. It performs a setuid chmod and chown on the slave pty device. Eavesdropping is prevented with the usage of a file handle as…
KGB_protocol – specification of the client-server communication protocol Description The protocol used by the KGB collaboration service is based on JSON-RPC (<http://json-rpc.org/>). KGB service helps collaboration by relaying notifications about commits in a version control system to IRC. It consists of client, hooked to the version control system which sends information about changes to the…
keyutils – in-kernel key management utilities Description The keyutils package is a library and a set of utilities for accessing the kernel keyrings facility. A header file is supplied to provide the definitions and declarations required to access the library: #include <keyutils.h> To link with the library, the following: -lkeyutils should be specified to the…
keyrings – in-kernel key management and retention facility Description The Linux key-management facility is primarily a way for various kernel components to retain or cache security data, authentication keys, encryption keys, and other data in the kernel. System call interfaces are provided so that user-space programs can manage those objects and also use the facility…
keyboard-request – event signalling console press of Alt-UpArrow Synopsis keyboard-request [ENV]… Description The keyboard-request event is generated by the Upstart init(8) daemon when the keyboard request key combination (typically Alt-UpArrow) is pressed on the console. The support for this event depends on your kernel configuration. Suggested use for this event includes spawning a new login…
kernel_lockdown – kernel image access prevention feature Description The Kernel Lockdown feature is designed to prevent both direct and indirect access to a running kernel image, attempting to protect against unauthorized modification of the kernel image and to prevent access to security and cryptographic data located in kernel memory, whilst still permitting driver modules to…
kernel-command-line – Kernel command line parameters Synopsis /proc/cmdline Description The kernel, the initial RAM disk (initrd) and basic userspace functionality may be configured at boot via kernel command line arguments. In addition, various systemd tools look at the EFI variable "SystemdOptions" (if available). Both sources are combined, but the kernel command line has higher priority….
kdeoptions – Common commandline options for all applications based on the KDE libraries Synopsis KDE application [KDE Generic Options] Options The following options apply to all KDE applications: –caption caption Use caption as name in the titlebar. –icon icon Use icon as the application icon. –config filename Use the alternative configuration filename –nocrashhandler Disable the…
iso_8859-9 – ISO 8859-9 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-9 encodes the characters used in Turkish. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1 West European languages…
iso_8859-8 – ISO 8859-8 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-8 encodes the characters used in Modern Hebrew. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1 West European…
iso_8859-7 – ISO 8859-7 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-7 encodes the characters used in modern monotonic Greek. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1 West…
iso_8859-6 – ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-6 encodes the characters used in the Arabic language. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1 West…
iso_8859-5 – ISO 8859-5 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-5 encodes the Cyrillic characters used in many East European languages. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO…
iso_8859-4 – ISO 8859-4 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-4 encodes the characters used in Scandinavian and Baltic languages. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1…
iso_8859-3 – ISO 8859-3 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-3 encodes the characters used in certain Southeast European languages. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1…
iso_8859-2 – ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-2 encodes the Latin characters used in many Central and East European languages. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets…
iso_8859-16 – ISO 8859-16 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-16 encodes the Latin characters used in Southeast European languages. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1…
iso_8859-15 – ISO 8859-15 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-15 encodes the characters used in many West European languages and adds the Euro sign. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO…
iso_8859-14 – ISO 8859-14 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-14 encodes the characters used in Celtic languages. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1 West European…
iso_8859-13 – ISO 8859-13 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal Description The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-13 encodes the characters used in Baltic Rim languages. ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: ISO 8859-1 West…