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Date:      Thu, 7 Jul 2022 09:57:05 GMT
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-branches@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: eb6e41c32e5b - stable/12 - hier.7: Document /nonexistent
Message-ID:  <202207070957.2679v5AP052815@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch stable/12 has been updated by 0mp (doc, ports committer):

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=eb6e41c32e5b3baa57b906630c405829a4e5680b

commit eb6e41c32e5b3baa57b906630c405829a4e5680b
Author:     Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-06-30 19:58:01 +0000
Commit:     Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-07-07 09:56:58 +0000

    hier.7: Document /nonexistent
    
    MFC after:      1 week
    
    (cherry picked from commit 606cdb2ef3a2574de0934f657eeb018ca6a470cc)
---
 share/man/man7/hier.7 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/share/man/man7/hier.7 b/share/man/man7/hier.7
index d15a99869d2c..69010dde8e9e 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/hier.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/hier.7
@@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ system administrators as a temporary mount point
 automounted NFS shares;
 see
 .Xr auto_master 5
+.It Pa /nonexistent/
+a non-existent directory;
+by convention, it serves as a home directory
+for special user accounts
+that need no home directory;
+see also
+.Pa /var/empty/
 .It Pa /proc/
 process file system;
 see



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