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authorRichard Maw <richard.maw@codethink.co.uk>2015-08-04 09:58:50 +0000
committerRichard Maw <richard.maw@codethink.co.uk>2015-08-04 09:58:50 +0000
commit8f0d2981ca2f0335426381416bd583c08c290f04 (patch)
treead35e9625a8954b7a1aef9e31c534be24a752e9b
parent58a2e9acd8216f55b004e5432f76a851f7b233c0 (diff)
man: Document invalid lines in EnvironmentFile
If a line doesn't contain an = separator, it is skipped, rather than raising an error. This is potentially useful, so let's document this behaviour.
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.exec.xml3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index 45a4422dc3..8fd75d274e 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@
<listitem><para>Similar to <varname>Environment=</varname> but
reads the environment variables from a text file. The text
file should contain new-line-separated variable assignments.
- Empty lines and lines starting with ; or # will be ignored,
+ Empty lines, lines without an <literal>=</literal> separator,
+ or lines starting with ; or # will be ignored,
which may be used for commenting. A line ending with a
backslash will be concatenated with the following one,
allowing multiline variable definitions. The parser strips