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Re: Patch to clarify readlink(1) man page
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Patch to clarify readlink(1) man page |
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Mon, 6 May 2019 13:49:04 -0500 |
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On 5/6/19 9:38 AM, Bruce Jerrick wrote:
> The --canonicalize options in the readlink(1) man page would be much
> easier to keep straight if they
> were in least-to-most restrictive order, rather than alphabetic order.
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> Here is a diff that changes it (to be applied to the uncompressed
> /usr/share/man/man1/readlink.1.gz);
readlink.1 is generated from 'readlink --help' output; the ultimate
patch would have to be applied to src/readlink.c. Would you like to
respin it against the latest coreutils.git and on the correct file, to
make it easier to test your proposed patch?
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