Merge pull request #2218 from akhilerm/privileged-device-doc

35991 - Modify CLI docs to specify working of device flag
2020-01-09 14:57:02 +01:00
parent f7f4a19328 e1daa22ba1
commit 69b5c4c30c
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@@ -560,7 +560,8 @@ device or audio device can be added to an otherwise unprivileged container

 By default, the container will be able to `read`, `write` and `mknod` these devices.
 This can be overridden using a third `:rwm` set of options to each `--device`
-flag:
+flag. If the container is running in privileged mode, then the permissions specified
+will be ignored.

 ```bash
 $ docker run --device=/dev/sda:/dev/xvdc --rm -it ubuntu fdisk  /dev/xvdc