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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-22 18:24:47 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-22 18:24:47 +0200
commit6d785b6d07767834a7a00209b5de376ea42075fe (patch)
treeb3bb7fd6b424fe1bf1e883e12fcbf70be614b26a /man
parentef43a39176616e545ceb9f4c3ac03fd78fd5e4a6 (diff)
man: elaborate on the order by which tmpfiles operations are executed
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-rw-r--r--man/tmpfiles.d.xml9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index 971b142e48..8d3ed37ae3 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -101,9 +101,12 @@
the lexicographically earliest name will be applied. All other
conflicting entries will be logged as errors. When two lines are
prefix and suffix of each other, then the prefix is always
- processed first, the suffix later. Otherwise, the
- files/directories are processed in the order they are
- listed.</para>
+ processed first, the suffix later. Lines that take globs are
+ applied after those accepting no globs. If multiple operations
+ shall be applied on the same file (such as ACL, xattr, file
+ attribute adjustments) these are always done in the same fixed
+ order. Otherwise, the files/directories are processed in the order
+ they are listed.</para>
<para>If the administrator wants to disable a configuration file
supplied by the vendor, the recommended way is to place a symlink