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| author | Sami Kerola | 2011-04-02 22:56:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-04-06 11:20:48 +0200 |
| commit | 935052005335cb4d29400da41704d2b8430ea09d (patch) | |
| tree | 79585a79e2296de71edadca20c23c331841fe1e4 /term-utils/setterm.1 | |
| parent | setterm: function screendump coding style fixed (diff) | |
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setterm: add note about long dump file paths to man page
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'term-utils/setterm.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | term-utils/setterm.1 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/term-utils/setterm.1 b/term-utils/setterm.1 index 8451e62d7..e5b3bb4ed 100644 --- a/term-utils/setterm.1 +++ b/term-utils/setterm.1 @@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ it. Only works if no \fB\-dump\fP options are given. .BI \-file " dumpfilename" Sets the snapshot file name for any \fB\-dump\fP or \fB\-append\fP options on the same command line. If this option is not present, the default is -screen.dump in the current directory. +screen.dump in the current directory. A path name that exceeds system +maximum will be truncated, see PATH_MAX from linux/limits.h for the value. .TP .BR \-msg " [" on | off "] (virtual consoles only)" Enables or disables the sending of kernel \fBprintk()\fP messages to the |