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authorMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>2011-09-20 12:28:22 +0200
committerMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>2011-09-20 13:13:17 +0200
commit418112a296e898cbd7fe8585995ae60936368327 (patch)
tree34fb1335bd7e03649d7942ef703d02322c4cbfc5 /man/systemd.unit.xml
parentcbe8269481a0272a51d72dc35a54a1fe20c93dfc (diff)
man: document which condition tests follow symlinks
ConditionPathExists and ConditionFileIsExecutable follow symlinks. ConditionPathIsDirectory does not follow symlinks. (XXX: is this actually the desired behavior?)
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diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index b222f9f064..a94476acb8 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@
a file existence condition can be
checked before a unit is started. If
the specified absolute path name does
- not exist startup of a unit will not
+ not exist, startup of a unit will not
actually happen, however the unit is
still useful for ordering purposes in
this case. The condition is checked at
@@ -689,23 +689,22 @@
<varname>ConditionPathExists=</varname>
is prefixed with an exclamation mark
(!), the test is negated, and the unit
- only started if the path does not
- exist. <varname>ConditionPathExistsGlob=</varname>
- work in a similar way, but checks for
- the existance of at least one file or
+ is only started if the path does not
+ exist. The test follows symlinks.
+ <varname>ConditionPathExistsGlob=</varname>
+ works in a similar way, but checks for
+ the existence of at least one file or
directory matching the specified
- globbing
- pattern. <varname>ConditionPathIsDirectory=</varname>
- is similar to
- <varname>ConditionPathExists=</varname>
- but verifies whether a certain path
- exists and is a
- directory. <varname>ConditionFileIsExecutable=</varname>
- is similar to
- <varname>ConditionPathExists=</varname>
- but verifies whether a certain path
- exists, is a regular file and marked
- executable.
+ globbing pattern.
+ <varname>ConditionPathIsDirectory=</varname>
+ is similar to <varname>ConditionPathExists=</varname>
+ but verifies whether a certain path exists and
+ is a directory. It does not follow symlinks.
+ <varname>ConditionFileIsExecutable=</varname>
+ is similar to <varname>ConditionPathExists=</varname>
+ but verifies whether a certain path exists,
+ is a regular file and marked executable.
+ It follows symlinks.
<varname>ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=</varname>
is similar to
<varname>ConditionPathExists=</varname>