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

[Micah Cowan]

(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