From e38ac49ab9052e1861f5afbc573ac812589f2290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Orlitzky Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:22:51 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] man/apply-default-acl.1: add a note about the --recursive exit codes. --- doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 b/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 index 6d77ce1..b13d5fd 100644 --- a/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 +++ b/doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 @@ -51,3 +51,10 @@ collected and the \(dqworst\(dq result is returned. For example, if one path succeeds and another fails, the overall result will be failure. If one succeeds, one fails, and one causes an error, then the overall result will be an error; and so on. +.P +The \fB\-\-recursive\fR flag modifies this behavior. Due to an +implementation detail, the recursive operation will return +EXIT_SUCCESS even if it encounters links or inaccessible paths during +the traversal. Beware; this means that manually supplying all children +of a directory on the command-line does not act the same as operating +on that directory recursively. -- 2.44.2