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authorManuel Bentele2019-08-21 14:58:42 +0200
committerManuel Bentele2019-08-21 14:58:42 +0200
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@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Show hardware watchdog status. The default device is
If more than one device is specified then the output is separated by
one blank line.
.PP
+If the device is already used or user has no permissions to read from the device than
+.B wdctl
+reads data from sysfs. In this case information about supported features (flags) might be missing.
+.PP
Note that the number of supported watchdog features is hardware specific.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP