From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 3 10:53:51 2002 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 BEEB537B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117C943E6A; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021003175349.QRCJ22381.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:53:49 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g93HuuoS002307; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g93Hupv3002304; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Tom Rhodes Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/43502: Manual page ZNEW(1) has a bug References: <200210030710.g937A4o9081365@freefall.freebsd.org> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 03 Oct 2002 10:56:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200210030710.g937A4o9081365@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Tom Rhodes 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message