Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:30:13 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/43502: Manual page ZNEW(1) has a bug Message-ID: <20021003153013.336e92a0.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <rn3crncsnw.crn@localhost.localdomain> References: <200210030710.g937A4o9081365@freefall.freebsd.org> <rn3crncsnw.crn@localhost.localdomain>
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I'll work on fixing this in the next few hours, however, znew is
contrib software from gzip. While I would say to fix on the vender
brance, gzip hasn't been touched in several years (shortest time is
listed in cvs as 22 months for one file, all others are like 3 years
and 8 years) so I don't think it makes much a difference to change
this in our local repo.
On 03 Oct 2002 10:56:51 -0700
swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote:
> Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> > I think what the manual page means here is that cpmod(1) is
> > currently not availible in the FreeBSD Operating System...
>
> The manual clearly does not mean that it is not available. It even
> seems to imply that it IS available.
>
> It also reads badly; as if it is the -P option which normally
> maintains the time stamp. It also doesn't say what it means to
> "maintain the time stamp" or what happens when it is not maintained.
>
> I don't consider it a bug that a Freebsd-standard program breaks if
> other standard programs (eg, touch) are broken. I think it would be
> best to replace the whole "Bugs" section with a note like this:
>
> If, for some reason, a non-standard touch(1) which not support the
> standard "-r" option is used, the non-standard cpmod(1) command
> (available from unknown sources) can be used to support znew(1).
> This support is only needed for the "-P" option and if it does
> not exist, the output file's time stamps will be unreliable.
>
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