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Re: Trivial spelling error in xargs man page
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: Trivial spelling error in xargs man page |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:19:37 +0000 |
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Geoff Gole <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the Debian Lenny xargs man page, under the "STANDARDS CONFORMANCE"
> section, 'standard' is misspelled.
>
> "The POSIX stadard allows implementations to have a limit ..."
>
> xargs --version reports:
> xargs (GNU findutils) 4.4.0
Thanks for spotting that. I applied this patch to findutils 4.5.x and 4.4.x:-
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/findutils/findutils/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.344
diff -u -r1.344 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog 30 Nov 2008 23:18:25 -0000 1.344
+++ ChangeLog 1 Dec 2008 22:14:27 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-12-01 Geoff Gole <address@hidden>
+
+ * xargs/xargs.1 (STANDARDS CONFORMANCE): Fix typo.
+
2008-11-30 Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Pass file type information in dirent.d_type from fts to find.
Index: xargs/xargs.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/findutils/findutils/xargs/xargs.1,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 xargs.1
--- xargs/xargs.1 13 Feb 2008 23:52:04 -0000 1.28
+++ xargs/xargs.1 1 Dec 2008 22:14:28 -0000
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
standard, but do not appear in the 2004 version of the standard.
Therefore you should use \-L and \-I instead, respectively.
.P
-The POSIX stadard allows implementations to have a limit on the size
+The POSIX standard allows implementations to have a limit on the size
of arguments to the
.B exec
functions. This limit could be as low as 4096 bytes including the size of the