From: Michael Orlitzky Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:41:16 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update the man page to say that symlinks are ignored in all path components. X-Git-Tag: v0.1.0~12 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fce58c087eff25e4af70012ae05607cdfe5f2abf;p=apply-default-acl.git Update the man page to say that symlinks are ignored in all path components. --- diff --git a/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 b/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 index bfbb724..683919b 100644 --- a/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 +++ b/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ apply-default-acl \- Apply default POSIX ACLs to files and directories. .P If the directory containing \fIpath\fR has a default ACL, the ACL on \fIpath\fR is replaced with that default. Neither symbolic nor hard -links are followed. +links are followed; symbolic links are ignored in all path components +to avoid a dangerous race condition. .P By default, a heuristic is used to determine whether or not the