From 0590732532465dddea718f76f9978949d10021d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: liamjfoy Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:08:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document new -P behaviour --- bin/rm/rm.1 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/bin/rm/rm.1 b/bin/rm/rm.1 index 2919569be63a..8153c351cef3 100644 --- a/bin/rm/rm.1 +++ b/bin/rm/rm.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: rm.1,v 1.22 2004/03/24 11:37:07 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: rm.1,v 1.23 2006/08/25 11:08:50 liamjfoy Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ then 0x00, and then with random data, before they are deleted. Some care is taken to ensure that the data are actually written to disk, but this cannot be guaranteed, even on traditional filesystems; on log-structured filesystems or if any block-journaling scheme is in -use, this option is completely useless. +use, this option is completely useless. If the file cannot be +overwritten, it will not be removed. .It Fl R Attempt to remove the file hierarchy rooted in each file argument. The