From fce58c087eff25e4af70012ae05607cdfe5f2abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Orlitzky Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:41:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update the man page to say that symlinks are ignored in all path components. --- doc/man/apply-default-acl.1 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.43.2