Re: A small standards-compliance diff for what(1)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CAA0nTRvozQhOJAC9bARuKCDSeuyidm2OYmGsJsC=gfUQOjiB8g%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Andras Farkas  <deepbluemistake%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>And this time, I'm attaching a proper cvs diff.
>SHA512 (cvswhatcdiff) =
>9679a8ea33be8780a02ac65bd5c19fe60ddb2e6dc07f4591925e59f5ca81d82e45344eb8840b85884e0fc83b9562b96e0fc492e2dd1c584aa6c6bc201efaf99f
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>On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 2:27 AM Andras Farkas <deepbluemistake%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> Hello!
>>
>> The man page for what(1) describes it as conforming to "X/Open
>> Portability Guide Issue 4, Version 2" however it does not.
>> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/what.html
>> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/what.html
>> NetBSD's what doesn't include the : (colon) after the filename, while
>> that is mandated for conformance.
>> The short diff I have attached fixes this.
>> SHA512 (whatcdiff) =
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>641d1a0bee3079ccf16193067f73925aaefd431653952623204874dcb6636480df83443163146f803f8363faa1458f5c362b52e703b836524974c5c6525e2783
>> The original file in this diff is the one in NetBSD 9.2's source.
>> Also, the STANDARDS section of the man page could probably be updated
>> to reference a more recent version of the standards.  OpenBSD's man
>> page for what has reasonable wording for this: "The what utility is
>> compliant with the X/Open System Interfaces option of the IEEE Std
>> 1003.1-2008 (â??POSIX.1â??) specification."
>>
>> Alternatively, if standards-compliance is not desired, only a small
>> diff for the man page would be needed.
>>
>> Thank you for reading my diff.
>>
>> (I sent this, mistakenly, to netbsd-bugs@ first!  Oops!  So here it
>> is, here, now)
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Committed...

christos