From 31ed59c51126fce7d958c188772a397e2a1ed010 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:39:04 +0100
Subject: tmpfiles: support writing short strings to files, in order to support
 /sys manipulations at boot time, a la sysctl

---
 man/tmpfiles.d.xml | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index 080da6681b..25a7c9ba48 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -98,12 +98,17 @@ L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
                         <variablelist>
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>f</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Create a file if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+                                        <listitem><para>Create a file if it doesn't exist yet (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed)</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>F</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Create or truncate a file</para></listitem>
+                                        <listitem><para>Create or truncate a file (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed)</para></listitem>
+                                </varlistentry>
+
+                                <varlistentry>
+                                        <term><varname>w</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem><para>Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists.</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
@@ -260,7 +265,10 @@ L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
                         path of the symlink. For c, b determines the
                         major/minor of the device node, with major and
                         minor formatted as integers, separated by :,
-                        e.g. "1:3". Ignored for all other lines.</para>
+                        e.g. "1:3". For f, F, w may be used to specify
+                        a short string that is written to the file,
+                        suffixed by a newline. Ignored for all other
+                        lines.</para>
                 </refsect2>
 
         </refsect1>
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