From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 28 14:18:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B5937B405 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E8343F93 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com (acs-24-154-229-196.zoominternet.net [24.154.229.196]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0SMIKOd056862; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:18:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:18:41 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/47170: xargs(1) manpage has "utility" problems. Message-Id: <20030128171841.11660491.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <62of62jb8r.f62@localhost.localdomain> References: <200301271818.h0RIIXd2052968@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030127171926.6b7963b5.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <62of62jb8r.f62@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27 Jan 2003 17:48:04 -0800 swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > Tom Rhodes writes: > > > On an off the wall note, a recent commit removed the NW from > > disklabel. This may help your patch ;) > > So you think I should remove NW from my re-worked manpage for 4.x? Not really, I only wanted to be sure you were aware of the changes in CURRENT. > > I looked and CVS and didn't see them removed from 4.x code. They > don't work on my system, but I don't know about other architectures. > Or do we assume that the 5.0 code will be MFC'd soon enough that > it doesn't matter that the 4.x manpage is wrong for a while? We shouldn't assume this. No worries. > > I was suprised to see that -N, -W, and -s were removed completely, > so that they are errors and so it will break old scripts. Aren't > obsolete options usually left in as no-ops, at least for a long > time? Depends. And this is a good question to ask phk ;) -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message