docs/51921: ls(1) manpage lacks some information about whiteouts.
Dmitry Sivachenko
mitya at cavia.pp.ru
Wed May 7 12:20:14 UTC 2003
>Number: 51921
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: ls(1) manpage lacks some information about whiteouts.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 07 05:20:11 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dmitry Sivachenko
>Release: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD tear.demos.su 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Tue May 6 11:28:11 MSD 2003 mitya at tear.demos.su:/usr/home/mitya/sys/compile/TEAR i386
>Description:
ls(1) denotes whiteouts (when in long format) with 'w' characted.
Mention that in manpage.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- ls.1.orig Wed May 7 16:10:29 2003
+++ ls.1 Wed May 7 16:13:39 2003
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl A
-List all entries except for
+List all entries except for whiteouts,
.Pa \&.
and
.Pa .. .
@@ -347,6 +347,8 @@
Socket link.
.It Sy p
.Tn FIFO .
+.It Sy w
+Whiteout.
.It Sy \-
Regular file.
.El
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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