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man/tmpfiles.d: rewrite the description of age-by

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@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ w- /proc/sys/vm/swappiness - - - - 10</programlisting></para>
<refsect2>
<title>Age</title>
<para>The date field, when set, is used to decide what files to
delete when cleaning. If a file or directory is older than the
current time minus the age field, it is deleted. The field
@ -582,10 +583,9 @@ w- /proc/sys/vm/swappiness - - - - 10</programlisting></para>
and <varname>X</varname>. If omitted or set to
<literal>-</literal>, no automatic clean-up is done.</para>
<para>If the age field starts with a tilde character
<literal>~</literal>, the clean-up is only applied to files and
directories one level inside the directory specified, but not
the files and directories immediately inside it.</para>
<para>If the age field starts with a tilde character <literal>~</literal>, clean-up is only applied to
files and directories one level inside the directory specified, but not the files and directories
immediately inside it.</para>
<para>The age of a file system entry is determined from its last
modification timestamp (mtime), its last access timestamp (atime),
@ -595,30 +595,25 @@ w- /proc/sys/vm/swappiness - - - - 10</programlisting></para>
the age field. To restrict the deletion based on particular type
of file timestamps, the age-by argument can be used.</para>
<para>The age-by argument, when (optionally) specified along
with age will check if the file system entry has aged by the
type of file timestamp(s) provided. It can be specified by
prefixing the age argument with a set of file timestamp types
followed by a colon character <literal>:</literal>, i.e.,
<literal><replaceable>age-by</replaceable>:<replaceable>cleanup-age</replaceable></literal>.
The argument can be a set of:
<constant>a</constant> (<constant>A</constant> for directories),
<constant>b</constant> (<constant>B</constant> for directories),
<constant>c</constant> (<constant>C</constant> for directories; ignored by default), or
<constant>m</constant> (<constant>M</constant> for directories),
indicating access, creation, last status change, and last
modification times of a file system entry respectively. See
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>statx</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file timestamp fields for more details.</para>
<para>The age-by argument overrides the timestamp types to be used for the age check. It can be
specified by prefixing the age argument with a sequence of characters to specify the timestamp types
and a colon (<literal>:</literal>):
<literal><replaceable>age-by</replaceable>...:<replaceable>cleanup-age</replaceable></literal>. The
argument can consist of <constant>a</constant> (<constant>A</constant> for directories),
<constant>b</constant> (<constant>B</constant> for directories), <constant>c</constant>
(<constant>C</constant> for directories), or <constant>m</constant> (<constant>M</constant> for
directories). Those respectively indicate access, creation, last status change, and last modification
time of a file system entry. The lower-case letter signifies that the given timestamp type should be
considered for files, while the upper-case letter signifies that the given timestamp type should be
considered for directories. See <citerefentry
project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>statx</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> file
timestamp fields for more details about timestamp types.</para>
<para>If unspecified, the age-by field defaults to
<constant>abcmABM</constant>,
i.e., by default all file timestamps are taken into consideration,
with the exception of the last status change timestamp (ctime) for
directories. This is because the aging logic itself will alter the
ctime whenever it deletes a file inside it. To ensure that running
the aging logic does not feed back into the next iteration of it,
ctime for directories is ignored by default.</para>
<para>If not specified, the age-by field defaults to <constant>abcmABM</constant>, i.e. by default all
file timestamps are taken into consideration, with the exception of the last status change timestamp
(ctime) for directories. This is because the aging logic itself will alter the ctime whenever it
deletes a file inside it. To ensure that running the aging logic does not feed back into the next
iteration of itself, ctime for directories is ignored by default.</para>
<para>For example:<programlisting>
# Files created and modified, and directories accessed more than