NetBSD Problem Report #44259

From cheusov@tut.by  Tue Dec 21 16:58:39 2010
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From: cheusov@tut.by
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Subject: xargs: -r option is accepted but not documented
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>Number:         44259
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       xargs: -r option is supported but not documented
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 21 17:00:00 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date:    Sun Feb 20 00:16:09 +0000 2011
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 20 00:16:09 +0000 2011
>Originator:     Aleksey Cheusov
>Release:        Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen
>Organization:
<organization of PR author (multiple lines)>
>Environment:
System: NetBSD current and 5.1
Architecture: i686
>Description:
Since revision 1.16 xargs.c supports -r flag for compatibility with
GNU's xargs but it is not documented. Maybe documentation for other
flags needs to be checked too.

As big portion of xargs was imported from FreeBSD it might make sense
to get updates for xargs.1 from them too.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Unknown
>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/44259 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/xargs
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:30:13 -0500

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	christos
 Date:		Tue Dec 21 20:30:13 UTC 2010

 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/xargs: xargs.1

 Log Message:
 PR/44259: Aleksey Cheusov: xargs: -r option is supported but not documented
 Synced with the FreeBSD doc.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 src/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->pending-pullups
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:43:52 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
pullup-5 #1552
I told releng to reject it if they didn't think it was important enough to
be worth pulling up.


From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/44259 CVS commit: [netbsd-5] src/usr.bin/xargs
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:17:52 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	bouyer
 Date:		Wed Feb 16 21:17:51 UTC 2011

 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/xargs [netbsd-5]: xargs.1

 Log Message:
 Pull up following revision(s) (requested by dholland in ticket #1552):
 	usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1: revision 1.21
 	usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1: revision 1.22
 PR/44259: Aleksey Cheusov: xargs: -r option is supported but not documented
 Synced with the FreeBSD doc.
 Talk more about NetBSD and less about FreeBSD. Sort sections.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.20.12.1 src/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: pending-pullups->closed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:16:09 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Pulled up to -5, thanks all.


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