Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/donny372/fio into master

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -2625,6 +2625,9 @@ I/O replay
        character. See the :option:`filename` option for information on how to
        escape ':' characters within the file names. These files will
        be sequentially assigned to job clones created by :option:`numjobs`.
+       '-' is a reserved name, meaning read from stdin, notably if
+       :option:`filename` is set to '-' which means stdin as well, then
+       this flag can't be set to '-'.
 
 .. option:: read_iolog_chunked=bool