Re: Some words are lost in tcpdump manual

[Nan Xiao <nan%chinadtrace.org@localhost>]

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply!

BTW, I think there is another typo in tcpdump manual
(https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/2b4e1229717fc755b0a69b2e318bba92c542e5e1/external/bsd/tcpdump/dist/tcpdump.1.in#L278):

> a number and an interface name, possibly followed by a text
description of the interface, is printed.

I think it should be:

> a number and an interface name, ...., are printed.

I submitted bug report before
(https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=54943),
but seems no one responded.

On 2020/2/17 6:50 AM, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 22:33:06 +0800, Nan Xiao(肖楠) wrote:
>> When I read tcpdump manual, I came across following words:
>>
>> ......
>> On platforms that support the SIGINFO signal, such as most BSDs
>> (including Mac OS X) and Digital/Tru64 UNIX, it will report those
>> counts when it receives a SIGINFO signal (generated, for example, by
>> typing your ``status'' character, typically control-T)
>>
>> SIGUSR1 signal.  and will continue capturing packets.
>> ......
>>
>> I checked the source code
>> (
>> https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/25b3f7cb8882ff71b5b35efb222795ba571e9622/external/bsd/tcpdump/dist/tcpdump.1.in#L206
>> ),
>> and found some words are lost.
>>
>> Could you help to check it? Thanks very much in advance!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This happened because there were some phrases commented out that don't
> apply to NetBSD. After some iterations of merges, an extra line "SIGUSR1
> signal" that should also have been commented out was left in. It should
> end with "typically control-T) and will continue capturing packets."
> I've edited the file on CVS HEAD to change the phrase. (And uwe@ has
> fixed the formatting problem that was adding the unnecessary empty
> lines in between.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

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Best Regards
Nan Xiao(肖楠)