Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] nfs.man: document incompatibility between "bg" option and systemd.

From: Michael Biebl <mbiebl@gmail.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, systemd-devel@freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] nfs.man: document incompatibility between "bg" option and systemd.
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 11:15:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGWsdOjd+HDity=qO0Rfk9RZ6bujwcXkR3MeZdN7ubroBPJ0sA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inkig1vw.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>

2017-05-30 10:55 GMT+02:00 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>:
> On Tue, May 30 2017, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
>> 2017-05-30 0:19 GMT+02:00 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>:
>>
>>> +.B bg
>>> +option is not supported, and may be stripped from the option list.
>>
>> Either systemd is updated to actually strip the bg option or not. The
>> documentation should reflect that.
>> I don't think we should be vague about this, as it would only be confusing.
>
> It depends on which version of systemd is in use.
> Even if/when systemd is updated to strip the 'bg', it would not
> be correct to say "and will be stripped..." as that isn't true for all
> versions.
> We could spell it out "and may be stripped from the option list,
> depending on which version of systemd is installed", but I'm not sure
> that really helps...
>  "... and some versions of systemd will strip 'bg' from the option list"
>  ??

So far, no version of systemd strips bg from the option list.
If in version X systemd actually starts stripping bg, we should
explicitly mention that version in the man page imho.

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