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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-13 15:23:37 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-13 15:23:53 +0200
commit1ae705fb3d635eb0c19d3712b2b78c5f45e7efad (patch)
treea22ba24c630eaca0e10a6e1daa315d265cd97738
parentbd1100898d63e9e2d8f6327b6895454f9abd5bd0 (diff)
man: slightly fewer paragraphs can help readability
-rw-r--r--man/tmpfiles.d.xml26
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index 107d422a7d..971b142e48 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -310,25 +310,23 @@
<listitem><para>Set file/directory attributes. Lines of this type
accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.</para>
- <para>The format of the argument field is <varname>[+-=][aAcCdDeijsStTu]
- </varname></para>
-
- <para>The prefix <varname>+</varname> (the default one) causes the
+ <para>The format of the argument field is
+ <varname>[+-=][aAcCdDeijsStTu] </varname>. The prefix
+ <varname>+</varname> (the default one) causes the
attribute(s) to be added; <varname>-</varname> causes the
- attribute(s) to be removed; <varname>=</varname>
- causes the attributes to set exactly as the following letters.</para>
- <para>The letters <literal>aAcCdDeijsStTu</literal> select the new
+ attribute(s) to be removed; <varname>=</varname> causes the
+ attributes to set exactly as the following letters. The
+ letters <literal>aAcCdDeijsStTu</literal> select the new
attributes for the files, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>chattr</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> for further information.
</para>
- <para>Passing only <varname>=</varname> as argument,
- resets all the file attributes listed above. It has to be pointed
- out that the <varname>=</varname> prefix, limits itself to the
- attributes corresponding to the letters listed here. All other
- attributes will be left untouched.</para>
-
- <para>Does not follow symlinks.</para>
+ <para>Passing only <varname>=</varname> as argument resets
+ all the file attributes listed above. It has to be pointed
+ out that the <varname>=</varname> prefix, limits itself to
+ the attributes corresponding to the letters listed here. All
+ other attributes will be left untouched. Does not follow
+ symlinks.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>