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bin/44259: xargs: -r option is accepted but not documented



>Number:         44259
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       xargs: -r option is supported but not documented
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 21 17:00:00 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Aleksey Cheusov
>Release:        Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen
>Organization:
<organization of PR author (multiple lines)>
>Environment:
System: NetBSD current and 5.1
Architecture: i686
>Description:
Since revision 1.16 xargs.c supports -r flag for compatibility with
GNU's xargs but it is not documented. Maybe documentation for other
flags needs to be checked too.

As big portion of xargs was imported from FreeBSD it might make sense
to get updates for xargs.1 from them too.

>Fix:

Unknown


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