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Bug 573621 - No man page(s)
No man page(s)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-01 13:00 UTC by Björn Lindqvist
Modified: 2009-03-11 09:37 UTC
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Description Björn Lindqvist 2009-03-01 13:00:29 UTC 
There is no man page for gvfsd. gvfsd --help is unhelpful. It should be explained somewhere what gvfsd does.
Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2009-03-05 10:44:02 UTC 
gvfsd is not something a user should be launching, and as such it is in libexec, not in bin. I don't think we generally have manpages for such things. 

gvfsd --help has a short explanation and documents the command line options. I don't see the need for any more documentation, as this is not something users should touch.
Comment 2 Björn Lindqvist 2009-03-07 11:39:00 UTC 
Then how do you figure out what gvfsd does? gvfs starts half a dozen processes, it would be interesting to know why.
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2009-03-11 09:37:32 UTC 
gvfsd is the main gvfs daemon, it tracks the currently mounted gvfs mounts and lets you find/contact them. It also spawns daemons for the gvfs backends when they are mounted.