Re: Bug in "cmp" man page: missing exit status value

[David Booth]

Thanks very much!

David

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 23:20 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
> (2011年10月08日 21:33), David Booth wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 20:32 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
> >> Fortunately, it looks like this was changed to "info cmp" in GNU
> >> diffutils 3.1, so there's no fix needed (as far as GNU's concerned). You
> >> may wish to file a bug report with your OS (Debian or Ubuntu?) for them
> >> to patch their version of diffutils 2.8 accordingly (but note that both
> >> distributions are currently using 3.0 now in their latest versions -
> >> fixes the "no exit status" issue, but still says "info diff" in the cmp
> >> manpage).
> > Sorry, I'm not sure I understand.  Are you saying that the man page
> > problem (failure to state the exit status) is already fixed in diffutils
> > 3.1?
> 
> It's fixed in 3.0 (which is in Ubuntu 11.04 - what I'm using). But 3.0
> still says "info diff" in the cmp manpage, whereas 3.1 directs you to
> "info cmp". So the fixes are in, just have to wait for them to trickle
> down (or get the Ubuntu maintainers to fix the older versions).
> 
> -mjc
> 
> 

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