Re: cmp man page lacks any mention of exit codes

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:19:53AM -0200, Felipe Kellermann wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 4:14am  +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > The cmp man page lacks any mention of exit codes.
> > As we know, one of the main points of interest of cmp is its exit
> > code. Sure you mention it on the info page but not the man page.
[...]
> Reading cmp(1) on my Linux system I see it has the same 
> documentation as my BSD system, and it describes the exit codes:

well, my GNU/Linux system has GNU diffutils 2.8.1 and, indeed, the
message generated by ``cmp --help'' doesn't mention exit codes.
(The man page is genereated from that by help2man.)

But the diffutils-2.8.7 package from alpha.gnu.org has this fixed
(I checked both the help message and the man page).

The issue will thus be fixed in the next stable release.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan