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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-01-10 18:08:12 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-01-10 18:08:12 +0000 |
commit | 23c6e3110efc3487a2212c75dbac9192f6648016 (patch) | |
tree | f590e3ed6f2a7d2fae2657fab79c1fa1813f87ff /doc/coreutils.texi | |
parent | 183dd5f707f10e49533cc950a50e7bc88fa7a0ff (diff) | |
download | coreutils-23c6e3110efc3487a2212c75dbac9192f6648016.tar.xz |
Document changes responding to POSIX interpretations about pathchk -p
dated 2005-01-06.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 0effaa09f..c8fc98086 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -10240,21 +10240,39 @@ its file system's maximum. A nonexistent @var{name} is not an error, so long a file with that name could be created under the above conditions. -The program accepts the following option. Also see @ref{Common options}. +The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. Options must precede operands. @table @samp @item -p -@itemx --portability @opindex -p -@opindex --portability -Do not perform checks based on the underlying file system. Instead, -check the length of each file name and its components against the -@acronym{POSIX} minimum limits for portability. Also check that the file -name contains only characters that are in the portable file name +Instead of performing checks based on the underlying file system, +print a message if any of these conditions is true: + +@enumerate +@item +A file name is empty. + +@item +The length of a file name or one of its components exceeds the +@acronym{POSIX} minimum limits for portability. + +@item +A file name contains a character outside the portable file name character set, namely, the ASCII letters and digits, @samp{-}, @samp{.}, @samp{/}, and @samp{_}. +@end enumerate + +@item -P +@opindex -P +Print a message if a file name is empty, or if it contains a component +that begins with @samp{-}. + +@item --portability +@opindex --portability +Print a message if a file name is not portable to all @acronym{POSIX} +hosts. This option is equivalent to @samp{-p -P}. @end table |