From 8ac59297e3bd2b0c7c25032c44b296e144b286ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:18:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] e2image.8.in: Update manpage to detail that writing to stdout is currently only supported when writing a raw image dump. (Addresses Debian bug #236383) --- misc/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ misc/e2image.8.in | 11 ++++++++++- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog index 767f7f1..d6b9e76 100644 --- a/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2004-03-08 Theodore Ts'o + + * e2image.8.in: Update manpage to detail that writing to stdout is + currently only supported when writing a raw image dump. + (Addresses Debian bug #236383) + 2004-03-04 Theodore Ts'o * logsave.c (main): Use setsid() to avoid getting killed by init diff --git a/misc/e2image.8.in b/misc/e2image.8.in index f66b99b..500d1f9 100644 --- a/misc/e2image.8.in +++ b/misc/e2image.8.in @@ -34,7 +34,16 @@ If .I image-file is -, then the output of .B e2image -will be sent to standard output. +will be sent to standard output, so that the output can be piped to +another program, such as +.BR gzip (1). +(Note that is currently only supported when +creating a raw image file using the +.B \-r +option, since the process of creating a normal image file currently +requires random-access access to the file, which can not be done using a +pipe. This restriction will hopefully be lifted in a future version of +.BR e2image .) .PP The .B \-r -- 1.8.3.1