man: improve statoverride description

A statoverride file written in the obvious way will produce incorrect
results for two independent reasons.  Document them.
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Benjamin Gilbert 2021-07-14 16:07:16 -04:00
parent f216a3c170
commit 5b5d3b12fb

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@ -232,7 +232,9 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
<term><option>--statoverride</option>="PATH"</term>
<listitem><para>
File containing list of modifications to make permissions (file mode, followed by space, followed by file path).
File containing list of modifications to make permissions (file mode in
decimal, followed by space, followed by file path). The specified mode
is ORed with the file's original mode unless preceded by "=".
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>