Re: bin/49177: usr.bin/uuencode is not functioning correctly, there are some problems in the source code.

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/49177; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/49177: usr.bin/uuencode is not functioning correctly, there
 are some problems in the source code.
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 13:22:17 -0500 (CDT)

 On Sat, 6 Sep 2014, skyblack%live.cn@localhost wrote:
 
 > but whatever your arguments are, the output will alway be stdout
 
 That is correct.
 
 > if i give two arguments to it, it will take the 
 > second one as input and print all the things to the screen
 
 I cannot reproduce this. I assume you may see it wrong.
 
 note that the you may be mislead by the correct behaviour.
 
 The second argument "outputname" is not the name of any input file but 
 is the name to use for later uudecode. See the "begin" line contains 
 your desired filename.
 
 t1:reed$ uuencode /etc/passwd whatever | head -1
 begin 644 whatever
 
 t1:reed$ uuencode /etc/passwd whatever | uudecode
 t1:reed$ head -1 whatever
 root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh
 
 I think this ticket may be closed, but please double check for yourself.