[systemd-devel] man systemd.network question

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 27.04.15 23:35, Kai Krakow (hurikhan77 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> The man page reads:
> 
> [MATCH] SECTION OPTIONS
>        The network file contains a "[Match]" section, which determines if a
>        given network file may be applied to a given device; and a
>        "[Network]" section specifying how the device should be configured.
>        The first (in lexical order) of the network files that matches a
>        given device is applied.
> 
> What does this exactly mean? Will it process further files or stop 
> processing files after a match?

It stops
> 
> Usually, my experience with unix says, that when files are processed in 
> lexical order, settings from earlier files are overridden by settings from 
> later files - like e.g. in /etc/env.d
> 
> In that sense, it can only mean that the processing stops at the first 
> matching files. Otherwise the order of overriding would be reversed from 
> expectations.
> 
> I think this should be made more clear in the man page, like by "The 
> processing of files stops at the first match." This would follow example of 
> how other projects document behaviour.

I added such a note now. 

Thanks,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat