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authorLucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>2017-02-08 00:58:02 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2017-02-07 18:58:02 -0500
commit8331eaabc7093a879914494e6b397f5a28f3cac9 (patch)
treee06e4a8bbb52a9a2a1f0586d6e83505a4b39c228 /man
parent15fcdc98cf4db7acdf5cd8df7614f3d3798ae81e (diff)
man: document *.d/ drop-in file order (#5262)
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-rw-r--r--man/systemd.unit.xml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index dbb0dc7bd7..eb00a2e88e 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@
<filename>/run/systemd/system</filename> directories. Drop-in files in <filename>/etc</filename>
take precedence over those in <filename>/run</filename> which in turn take precedence over those
in <filename>/usr/lib</filename>. Drop-in files under any of these directories take precedence
- over unit files wherever located.</para>
+ over unit files wherever located. Multiple drop-in files with different names are applied in
+ lexicographic order, regardless of which of the directories they reside in.</para>
<!-- Note that we do not document .include here, as we consider it mostly obsolete, and want
people to use .d/ drop-ins instead. -->
@@ -1343,7 +1344,7 @@ ExecStart=/usr/sbin/foo-daemon
file <filename><replaceable>name</replaceable>.conf</filename>
there that only changes the specific settings one is interested
in. Note that multiple such drop-in files are read if
- present.</para>
+ present, processed in lexicographic order of their filename.</para>
<para>The advantage of the first method is that one easily
overrides the complete unit, the vendor unit is not parsed at