man: add new kernel command line switches to kernel-command-line(7)

[elogind.git] / man / tmpfiles.d.xml

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index 5d8c2b5b3297a0c673e78106c267a746bb0e8a8e..6b2753549c51759907218dbece78ac23a0518ebd 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -169,22 +169,58 @@ L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>p</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it does not exist yet.</para></listitem>
+                                        <term><varname>p+</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem><para>Create a named
+                                        pipe (FIFO) if it does not
+                                        exist yet. If suffixed with
+                                        <varname>+</varname> and a
+                                        file already exists where the
+                                        pipe is to be created it will
+                                        be removed and be replaced by
+                                        the pipe.</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>L</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Create a symlink if it does not exist yet.</para></listitem>
+                                        <term><varname>L+</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem><para>Create a
+                                        symlink if it does not exist
+                                        yet. If suffixed with
+                                        <varname>+</varname> and a
+                                        file already exists where the
+                                        symlink is to be created it
+                                        will be removed and be
+                                        replaced by the
+                                        symlink.</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>c</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Create a character device node if it does not exist yet.</para></listitem>
+                                        <term><varname>c+</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem><para>Create a
+                                        character device node if it
+                                        does not exist yet. If
+                                        suffixed with
+                                        <varname>+</varname> and a
+                                        file already exists where the
+                                        device node is to be created
+                                        it will be removed and be
+                                        replaced by the device
+                                        node.</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>b</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Create a block device node if it does not exist yet.</para></listitem>
+                                        <term><varname>b+</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem><para>Create a block
+                                        device node if it does not
+                                        exist yet. If suffixed with
+                                        <varname>+</varname> and a
+                                        file already exists where the
+                                        device node is to be created
+                                        it will be removed and be
+                                        replaced by the device
+                                        node.</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
@@ -368,6 +404,22 @@ r! /tmp/.X[0-9]*-lock</programlisting>
                         ignored for <varname>x</varname>,
                         <varname>r</varname>, <varname>R</varname>,
                         <varname>L</varname> lines.</para>
+
+                        <para>Optionally, if prefixed with
+                        <literal>~</literal> the access mode is masked
+                        based on the already set access bits for
+                        existing file or directories: if the existing
+                        file has all executable bits unset then all
+                        executable bits are removed from the new
+                        access mode, too. Similar, if all read bits
+                        are removed from the old access mode they will
+                        be removed from the new access mode too, and
+                        if all write bits are removed, they will be
+                        removed from the new access mode too. In
+                        addition the sticky/suid/gid bit is removed unless
+                        applied to a directory. This
+                        functionality is particularly useful in
+                        conjunction with <varname>Z</varname>.</para>
                 </refsect2>
 
                 <refsect2>