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| author | Jindrich Novy | 2011-10-21 02:49:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Ruediger Meier | 2018-06-12 14:23:41 +0200 |
| commit | 94b040b06ba018af0799e4117fe5c8dc99f70ef4 (patch) | |
| tree | dc437b2a064823ee05c659d891420889771fb10b /misc-utils/hardlink.1 | |
| parent | fix URL and remove mmap() (#676962, #672917) (diff) | |
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fix possible buffer overflows, integer overflows, update man page
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/hardlink.1 b/misc-utils/hardlink.1 index 09fd7ac90..0590e8464 100644 --- a/misc-utils/hardlink.1 +++ b/misc-utils/hardlink.1 @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ hardlink \- Consolidate duplicate files via hardlinks \fBhardlink\fP [\fB-c\fP] [\fB-n\fP] [\fB-v\fP] [\fB-vv\fP] [\fB-h\fP] directory1 [ directory2 ... ] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP -This manual page documents \fBhardlink\fP, a +This manual page documents \fBhardlink\fP, a program which consolidates duplicate files in one or more directories using hardlinks. .PP -\fBhardlink\fP traverses one +\fBhardlink\fP traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate files. When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the master. It then removes all other duplicates and places a hardlink for each one pointing to the master file. @@ -34,8 +34,15 @@ Print every hardlinked file and bytes saved. Also print summary after hardlinkin Show help. .SH "AUTHOR" .PP -\fBhardlink\fP was written by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>. +\fBhardlink\fP was written by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>. .PP Man page written by Brian Long. .PP Man page updated by Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> +.SH "BUGS" +.PP +\fBhardlink\fP assumes that its target directory trees do not change from under +it. If a directory tree does change, this may result in \fBhardlink\fP +accessing files and/or directories outside of the intended directory tree. +Thus, you must avoid running \fBhardlink\fP on potentially changing directory +trees, and especially on directory trees under control of another user. |