Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:29:37 +0100 (CET) From: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@imf.unit.no> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/2782: err man page is slightly wrong Message-ID: <199702202029.VAA29029@frida.imf.unit.no> Resent-Message-ID: <199702202030.MAA06161@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2782
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: err man page is slightly wrong
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 20 12:30:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Arne Henrik Juul
>Organization:
Norwegian University of Technology and Science
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386
>Environment:
Probably almost any FreeBSD variant.
>Description:
the err/errx man page implies that errx produces output
with program name, colon, space, optional {message, colon, space},
newline. My first try at correct description was wrong the
other way, but adding a little English seems to have solved
the problem.
PS: shouldn't there be a "lib" category?
>How-To-Repeat:
man err
>Fix:
Apply this patch:
diff -ru orig/src/lib/libc/gen/err.3 src/lib/libc/gen/err.3
--- orig/src/lib/libc/gen/err.3 Sat Oct 14 01:46:55 1995
+++ src/lib/libc/gen/err.3 Thu Feb 20 21:11:14 1997
@@ -75,18 +75,19 @@
and a space are output.
If the
.Va fmt
-argument is not NULL, the formatted error message, a colon character,
-and a space are output.
+argument is not NULL, the formatted error message is output.
In the case of the
.Fn err ,
.Fn verr ,
.Fn warn ,
and
.Fn vwarn
-functions, the error message string affiliated with the current value of
+functions,
+the error message string affiliated with the current value of
the global variable
.Va errno
-is output.
+is also output,
+preceded by another colon and space if necessary.
In all cases, the output is followed by a newline character.
.Pp
The
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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