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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2022-03-04 14:13:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2022-03-04 14:13:56 +0100 |
| commit | 382586894b9c09974aa734a1f77d3f6f69126d76 (patch) | |
| tree | c4287a740f757abaeb819d0250584c73f704395d | |
| parent | man: drop outdated info about polkit in pid1 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-382586894b9c09974aa734a1f77d3f6f69126d76.tar.xz systemd-382586894b9c09974aa734a1f77d3f6f69126d76.zip | |
man: say that we ignore ignored options
Fixes #22057.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.unit.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml index b36f36be7e..b20072f0a2 100644 --- a/man/systemd.unit.xml +++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml @@ -126,13 +126,11 @@ <literal>@</literal> and the unit type suffix. In the unit file itself, the instance parameter may be referred to using <literal>%i</literal> and other specifiers, see below.</para> - <para>Unit files may contain additional options on top of those - listed here. If systemd encounters an unknown option, it will - write a warning log message but continue loading the unit. If an - option or section name is prefixed with <option>X-</option>, it is - ignored completely by systemd. Options within an ignored section - do not need the prefix. Applications may use this to include - additional information in the unit files.</para> + <para>Unit files may contain additional options on top of those listed here. If systemd encounters an + unknown option, it will write a warning log message but continue loading the unit. If an option or + section name is prefixed with <option>X-</option>, it is ignored completely by systemd. Options within an + ignored section do not need the prefix. Applications may use this to include additional information in + the unit files. To access those options, applications need to parse the unit files on their own.</para> <para>Units can be aliased (have an alternative name), by creating a symlink from the new name to the existing name in one of the unit search paths. For example, <filename>systemd-networkd.service</filename> |