[24419] trunk/base/doc/portfile.7

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Revision: 24419
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/24419
Author:   eridius at macports.org
Date:     2007-04-23 23:19:47 -0700 (Mon, 23 Apr 2007)

Log Message:
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Add note about fs-traverse's behaviour regarding cross-device file hierarchies.
Unfortunately I don't know of any way to test this behaviour.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/base/doc/portfile.7

Modified: trunk/base/doc/portfile.7
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--- trunk/base/doc/portfile.7	2007-04-24 06:13:30 UTC (rev 24418)
+++ trunk/base/doc/portfile.7	2007-04-24 06:19:47 UTC (rev 24419)
@@ -1501,11 +1501,15 @@
 .Nm continue
 is called during execution, the current file and any children are skipped
 and traversal continues with the next file/directory.
-
+.Pp
 If
 .Nm fs-traverse
 is called directly on a symbolic link, the link will be followed. All other
 links encountered during traversal will not be followed.
+.Pp
+.Nm fs-traverse
+will not descend into directories that have a different device number than
+the root of the descent.
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Fl depth
 Equivalent to the

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