Current runscript man page says the following about checkpath: checkpath [-D, --directory-truncate] [-d, --directory] [-F, --file-truncate] [-f, --file] [-p, --pipe] [-m, --mode mode] [-o, -owner owner] path ... Checks to see if the path exists, is of the right type, owned by the right people and has the correct access modes. If not, then it corrects the path. checkpath [-W, --writable] path checks to see if the path is writable. It's nice that we get the list of available options but leaves us with what exactly the options are good for. For example what exactly do the "--directory-truncate", "--file-truncate" and "--pipe" options? Can we use --mode with only three digits (750) or do we have to submit four digits (0750)? Can we use checkpath for checking if a file is missing and _not_ creating that file but with return code <0? Please make the description of checkpath more verbose (for each option) and maybe give a couple of examples. It would also be fine to give some hints what checkpath can not be used for. Thanks!
Will it work? https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/15
(In reply to Alexander Vershilov from comment #1) > Will it work? > > https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/15 I'll try to answer other questions in next patch.
> Can we use checkpath for checking if a file is missing and _not_ creating that file but with return code <0? it's not possible now, so were not added to manual. Is it required option, in this case we may add such feature.
The pull request was merged in commit d59737a, and I added more clarification in commit 4014124. These will be included in OpenRc-0.13.
Let me know if more clarification is needed.
