Module Name: src
Committed By: christos
Date: Wed Sep 18 23:43:23 UTC 2019
Modified Files:
src/bin/df: df.1
Log Message:
It is not just root, it is device read access (kre)
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.51 -r1.52 src/bin/df/df.1
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Modified files:
Index: src/bin/df/df.1
diff -u src/bin/df/df.1:1.51 src/bin/df/df.1:1.52
--- src/bin/df/df.1:1.51 Wed Sep 18 16:17:46 2019
+++ src/bin/df/df.1 Wed Sep 18 19:43:23 2019
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: df.1,v 1.51 2019/09/18 20:17:46 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: df.1,v 1.52 2019/09/18 23:43:23 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -178,6 +178,14 @@ The wedge name is prefixed with
.Dq NAME=
as in
.Xr fstab 5 .
+The .Fl W
+option needs read access on the devices to be able to access
+the wedge information.
+This is available to users with root privileges, and usually to
+members of group operator.
+If the wedge information cannot be obtained, for one or more
+filesystems, the
+.Fl W option is silently ignoresd for those filesystems.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width BLOCKSIZE
@@ -213,7 +221,7 @@ utility appeared in
.Sh BUGS
The
.Fl W
-option needs root privileges to run because it needs to open the disk devices
-to get the wedge information.
+option needs read access to the disk device node to
+get the wedge information.
Perhaps this information should be exposed via a different mechanism in the
future.
