summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>2010-07-07 21:40:51 +0200
committerSebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>2010-07-07 21:43:45 +0200
commita2cc62702fb5d6b54aa68c4a4ed2bf300e582b31 (patch)
tree532760b1a1b28c739ebafc95e6a0d1b690f89d4f /doc
parent8eff1545b83aafba80074951829f6325199a5b25 (diff)
downloadlayman-a2cc62702fb5d6b54aa68c4a4ed2bf300e582b31.tar.gz
layman-a2cc62702fb5d6b54aa68c4a4ed2bf300e582b31.tar.bz2
layman-a2cc62702fb5d6b54aa68c4a4ed2bf300e582b31.zip
Close stdin of child processes in quiet mode
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/layman.8.xml13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/layman.8.xml b/doc/layman.8.xml
index 0988ff4..ccd127e 100644
--- a/doc/layman.8.xml
+++ b/doc/layman.8.xml
@@ -482,12 +482,13 @@
<term><option>--quiet</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Makes <command>layman</command> completely quiet.
- This option is dangerous: If the processes spawned by
- layman when adding or synchronizing overlays require
- any input layman will hang without telling you
- why. This might happen for example if your overlay
- resides in subversion and the SSL certificate of
- the server needs acceptance.</para>
+ In quiet mode child processes will be run with stdin closed
+ to avoid running into infinite and blindly interactive sessions.
+ Thus a child process may abort once it runs into an
+ situation with need for human interaction.
+ For example this might happen if your overlay
+ resides in Subversion and the SSL certificate of
+ the server needs manual acceptance.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>