On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 03/11/2015 03:13 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It seems that the document for ls in coreutils does not have an >> explanation of +. Should this be added? Thanks. >> >> http://serverfault.com/questions/227852/what-does-a-mean-at-the-end-of-the-permissions-from-ls-l > > It is already there: > > $ info coreutils 'What information is listed' > ... > Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies > whether an alternate access method such as an access control list > applies to the file. When the character following the file mode > bits is a space, there is no alternate access method. When it is a > printing character, then there is such a method. > > GNU 'ls' uses a '.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux > security context, but no other alternate access method. > > A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is > marked with a '+' character.
Shall the information about "+" be added to the manpage? -- Regards, Peng
