To: bugs@openbsd.org
Subject: Small error in chflags man page
From: Jonathan
Cc: cleetus
Reply-To: easyfashioncloth...@gmx.com>Synopsis: chflags man page has an
error
>Category: Documentation
>Environment:
System : OpenBSD 6.6
Details : OpenBSD 6.6 (GENERIC.MP) #1: Sun Oct 27 16:19:23 MDT 2019
clee...@leo.cats.domain:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64
Machine : amd64
>Description:
The man page for chflags says to prepend "no" to one of the
flags. To unset the nodump flag you would then do:
$chlags nonodump file.txt
However this does not work.
>How-To-Repeat:
leo$ ls -lohd mp3/
drwxr-xr-x 15 cleetus cleetus uchg,nodump 512B May 6 14:33 mp3/
leo$ chflags -R nonodump mp3/
chflags: invalid flag: nonodump
leo$ chflags -R dump mp3/
leo$ ls -lohd mp3/
drwxr-xr-x 15 cleetus cleetus uchg 512B May 6 14:33 mp3/
leo$>Fix:
The man page should say: Putting the letters no before a flag name causes
the flag to
be turned off except in the case of the nodump flag. To turn
off nodump, use dump. Do not use nonodump.
EXAMPLE:
chflags dump somefile.txt
