From richard@interactive.co.uk Mon May 25 16:04:37 1998 Received: from spottisvax.nonet (iiltd.demon.co.uk [158.152.78.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27566 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 16:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@interactive.co.uk) Received: (from richard@localhost) by spottisvax.nonet (8.8.5/8.6.12) id BAA00732; Mon, 25 May 1998 01:43:13 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199805250043.BAA00732@spottisvax.nonet> Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 01:43:13 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Tobin Reply-To: richard@interactive.co.uk To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: cmp(1) man page inconsistent with program X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 6756 >Category: bin >Synopsis: cmp(1) man page inconsistent with program >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon May 25 16:00:01 PDT 1998 >Closed-Date: Mon May 25 17:43:33 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: Mon May 25 17:46:01 PDT 1998 >Originator: Richard Tobin >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386 (also 2.2.6) >Organization: none >Environment: any >Description: cmp(1) says that the "EOF on filexxx" message is printed to stdout but it is actually printed to stderr. I don't know whether the program or the man page corresponds to Posix, but the program appears to be consistent with other unixes. >How-To-Repeat: Run cmp on two files one of which is an initial subset of the other. Observe where the message is printed. >Fix: should be trivial :-) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: steve State-Changed-When: Mon May 25 17:43:33 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: A patch was committed to both -stable and -current. Thanks for the report. >Unformatted: