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| author | Karel Zak | 2014-10-07 12:12:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-10-07 12:12:39 +0200 |
| commit | c4604c38b503c8c46e50fc2048ebbcbcfcad3802 (patch) | |
| tree | 76c437a9bdd22f6afd872cfb72ce3d41f390f8e8 /sys-utils/flock.1 | |
| parent | losetup: improve man page -D docs (diff) | |
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flock: zero timeout is valid
This patch reverts Sami's "timeout cannot be zero", introduced
in commit 605325b23b36238c8f3ae165e37cab9064553cf7.
The --timeout 0 has been originally interpreted as --nonblock. The
patch also add hint about this behavior to the man page.
Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149974
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/flock.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/flock.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/flock.1 b/sys-utils/flock.1 index 276d72633..f69040190 100644 --- a/sys-utils/flock.1 +++ b/sys-utils/flock.1 @@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ Fail if the lock cannot be acquired within Decimal fractional values are allowed. See the .B \-E -option for the exit code used. +option for the exit code used. The zero number of +.IR seconds +is interpreted as \fB\-\-nonblock\fR. .TP .BR \-V , " \-\-version" Display version information and exit. |