Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR standards/14702; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kleink%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:58:08 -0400

 On Jul 13, 10:25pm, perry%piermont.com@localhost ("Perry E. Metzger") wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)
 
 | On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:35:50 -0400 christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos
 | Zoulas) wrote:
 | > On Jul 13,  9:25pm, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) 
wrote:
 | > -- Subject: Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)
 | > 
 | > |  What about -i, -l, and -e (see the PR)?
 | > 
 | > These predate -I -L and -E (the POSIX versions) and are documented
 | > to be obsolete in the linux man page.
 | 
 | POSIX doesn't seem to indicate that they're obsolete. It lists them
 | at any rate, and describes their functions without deprecating them.
 | 
 | http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/xargs.html
 
 Heh, looking at the 1997 man page will give you such information!!! :-)
 Instead if you look the the "fresh" 2004 version:
 
 http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/utilities/xargs.html
 
 You'll also see the rationale for their removal.
 
 christos