Subject: bin/25553: ntptrace as an awk program can't accept options
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org>
From: None <gcw@primenet.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/13/2004 11:28:39
>Number: 25553
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: options passed to ntptrace are really passed to awk
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu May 13 01:29:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Geoff C. Wing
>Release: NetBSD 2.0E 2004-05-10
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD g.primenet.com.au 2.0E NetBSD 2.0E (G) #0: Wed May 12 17:49:37 EST 2004 gcw@g.primenet.com.au:/usr/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/G i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
% ntptrace -n
/usr/bin/awk: unknown option -n ignored
...
% ntptrace -- -n
... # works as expected
>How-To-Repeat:
see above
>Fix:
Revert to C program?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: