From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jul 10 18:57:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BF437B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0393F43E54; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tjr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (tjr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6B1vfJU092087; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tjr@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from tjr@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6B1vfg6092083; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:57:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Tim J. Robbins" Message-Id: <200207110157.g6B1vfg6092083@freefall.freebsd.org> To: olli@secnetix.de, tjr@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/40381: xargs(1) is wrong about standards compliance Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: xargs(1) is wrong about standards compliance State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: tjr State-Changed-When: Wed Jul 10 18:42:10 PDT 2002 State-Changed-Why: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE and 5.0-CURRENT have the -p and -E options as required by IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001. I agree that the manual page in releases up to and including 4.6 should mention the year of the standard it claims conformance to. I believe it refers to the 1992 edition where xargs has this Synopsis: xargs [-t] [-n number [-x] ] [-s size] [utility [argument ...]] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40381 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message