diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/layman.8.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/layman.8.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/layman.8.xml b/doc/layman.8.xml index 0988ff4..ccd127e 100644 --- a/doc/layman.8.xml +++ b/doc/layman.8.xml @@ -482,12 +482,13 @@ <term><option>--quiet</option></term> <listitem> <para>Makes <command>layman</command> completely quiet. - This option is dangerous: If the processes spawned by - layman when adding or synchronizing overlays require - any input layman will hang without telling you - why. This might happen for example if your overlay - resides in subversion and the SSL certificate of - the server needs acceptance.</para> + In quiet mode child processes will be run with stdin closed + to avoid running into infinite and blindly interactive sessions. + Thus a child process may abort once it runs into an + situation with need for human interaction. + For example this might happen if your overlay + resides in Subversion and the SSL certificate of + the server needs manual acceptance.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |