Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:18:41 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> 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> <fuu1fujnl8.1fu@localhost.localdomain> <20030127171926.6b7963b5.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <62of62jb8r.f62@localhost.localdomain>
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On 27 Jan 2003 17:48:04 -0800 swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> 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
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