On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2017 09:47:35 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > The reason why this is still not fully reflected by the man page is > > not yet uncovered. > > Maybe a wee bit of security by obscurity?
Or you're not reading the current man pages. The man page has changed in stretch. The "legacy" wording is not in wheezy's or jessie's.