Commit 68cb6a88 authored by Angelo Compagnucci's avatar Angelo Compagnucci Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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docs/manual: documentation for recursive makedevs syntax 



This patch adds the documentation for the new makedevs
recursive syntax.

[Thomas: s/folder/directory/ as suggested by Yann.]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAngelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatar"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 410f9b60

docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt

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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ There are a few non-trivial blocks: 
- +type+ is the type of the file, being one of:

  * f: a regular file

  * d: a directory

  * r: a directory recursively

  * c: a character device file

  * b: a block device file

  * p: a named pipe
@@ -41,6 +42,13 @@ this syntax, you will need to put: 
/usr/bin/foobar f 644 0 0 - - - - -

----



Alternatively, if you want to change owner/permission of a directory

recursively, you can put:



----

/usr/share/myapp r 750 myuser myuser - - - - -

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On the other hand, if you want to create the device file +/dev/hda+

and the corresponding 15 files for the partitions, you will need for

+/dev/hda+: