Fix an issue where updatedb would stop on certain CIFS filesystems.

[plocate] / plocate.1

diff --git a/plocate.1 b/plocate.1
index 53354dca5d2bc18fbb9f69f282ebb8249dc9f293..b5d04ddda54b9c226064d2b24d86d2be4c027456 100644 (file)
--- a/plocate.1
+++ b/plocate.1
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ plocate \- find files by name, quickly
 finds all files on the system matching the given pattern (or all
 of the patterns if multiple are given). It does this by means of
 an index made by
-.BR plocate-build (8),
-which in turn reads the database made by 
-.BR updatedb (8).
+.BR updatedb (8)
+or (less commonly) converted from another index by
+.BR plocate-build (8).
 
-plocate is largely compatible with
+plocate is largely argument-compatible with
 .BR mlocate (1),
-and reuses its database to create its index, but is significantly
+but is significantly
 faster. In particular, it rarely needs to scan through its entire
 database, unless the pattern is very short (less than three bytes)
 or you want to search for a regular expression. It does not try to
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ will search for files that match
 of them. This is the main incompatibility with
 .BR mlocate (1),
 which searches for files that match one or more patterns, unless
-the \-a option is given.
+the \-A option is given.
 
 By default, patterns are taken to be substrings to search for.
 If at least one non-escaped globbing metacharacter (*, ? or []) is given,