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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-04-30 18:00:46 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-04-30 18:00:46 -0400
commitbc1d8669b8339e8c9420f42b0662bfffa98f320e (patch)
tree2c42ab297e6f4c9b98f65ba5bcc50b3d2df36364 /man/systemd.unit.xml
parentb79660e6acb964f94ddba0ea4e1182215934dfc3 (diff)
parentf4bf8d2f45b02c26234219d07bfd3a41290cc84e (diff)
Merge pull request #3152 from poettering/aliasfix
Refuse aliases to non-aliasable units in more places Fixes #2730.
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diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index f4b13a7a77..abd47bd237 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -1103,13 +1103,12 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Alias=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names
- this unit shall be installed under. The names listed here must
- have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This
- option may be specified more than once, in which case all
- listed names are used. At installation time,
- <command>systemctl enable</command> will create symlinks from
- these names to the unit filename.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names this unit shall be installed under. The names listed
+ here must have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This option may be specified more than once,
+ in which case all listed names are used. At installation time, <command>systemctl enable</command> will create
+ symlinks from these names to the unit filename. Note that not all unit types support such alias names, and this
+ setting is not supported for them. Specifically, mount, slice, swap, and automount units do not support
+ aliasing.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>