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Re: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document


From: Peng Yu
Subject: Re: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:33:31 -0500

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/11/2015 03:13 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that the document for ls in coreutils does not have an
>> explanation of +. Should this be added? Thanks.
>>
>> http://serverfault.com/questions/227852/what-does-a-mean-at-the-end-of-the-permissions-from-ls-l
>
> It is already there:
>
> $ info coreutils 'What information is listed'
> ...
>      Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies
>      whether an alternate access method such as an access control list
>      applies to the file.  When the character following the file mode
>      bits is a space, there is no alternate access method.  When it is a
>      printing character, then there is such a method.
>
>      GNU 'ls' uses a '.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux
>      security context, but no other alternate access method.
>
>      A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is
>      marked with a '+' character.

Shall the information about "+" be added to the manpage?

-- 
Regards,
Peng



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