diff --git a/man/faketime.1 b/man/faketime.1 index 58a432c..7b6f5ce 100644 --- a/man/faketime.1 +++ b/man/faketime.1 @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ faketime \- manipulate the system time for a given command .SH DESCRIPTION .\" \fIfaketime\fR will trick the given program into seeing the specified timestamp as its starting date and time. .PP -The given command will be tricked into believing that the current system time is the one specified in the timestamp. The wall clock will continue to run -from this date and time unless specified otherwise (see advanced options). Actually, faketime is a simple wrapper for libfaketime, which uses the LD_PRELOAD -mechanism to load a small library which intercepts system calls to functions such as -\fItime(2)\fR and \fIfstat(2)\fR. This wrapper exposes only a subset of libfaketime's functionality; please refer to the README file that came with faketime -for more details and advanced options, or have a look at http://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime +The given command will be tricked into believing that the current system time is the one specified in the timestamp. Filesystem timestamps will also be +reported relative to this timestamp. The wall clock will continue to run from this date and time unless specified otherwise (see advanced options). +Actually, faketime is a simple wrapper for libfaketime, which uses the LD_PRELOAD mechanism to load a small library which intercepts system calls to +functions such as \fItime(2)\fR and \fIfstat(2)\fR. This wrapper exposes only a subset of libfaketime's functionality; please refer to the README file +that came with faketime for more details and advanced options, or have a look at http://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-\-help\fR @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ When using relative time offsets or start-at timestamps (see ADVANCED TIMESTAMP \fB"i"\fR is followed by the increase interval in seconds. .PP Faking times for multiple programs or even system-wide can be simplified by using ~/.faketimerc files and /etc/faketimerc. Please refer to the README that came with faketime for warnings and details. +.PP +Faking of filesystem timestamps may be disabled by setting the NO_FAKE_STAT environment variable to a non-empty value. .SH AUTHOR Please see the README and NEWS files for contributors. .SH BUGS