From: Lucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 00:42:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man: improve systemd-escape --path description
X-Git-Tag: v232~21^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7a7f78bb03d12ff0b1201739c712062ef437ea8;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

man: improve systemd-escape --path description

The option does more than the documentation gave it credit for.
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diff --git a/man/systemd-escape.xml b/man/systemd-escape.xml
index dbb3869a24f..acf8e0a02e5 100644
--- a/man/systemd-escape.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-escape.xml
@@ -108,9 +108,10 @@
         <term><option>-p</option></term>
 
         <listitem><para>When escaping or unescaping a string, assume
-        it refers to a file system path. This enables special
-        processing of the initial <literal>/</literal> of the
-        path.</para></listitem>
+        it refers to a file system path. This eliminates leading,
+        trailing or duplicate <literal>/</literal> characters
+        and rejects <literal>.</literal> and <literal>..</literal>
+        path components.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>