http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/119329 SEND-PR: -*- send-pr -*- SEND-PR: Lines starting with `SEND-PR' will be removed automatically, as SEND-PR: will all comments (text enclosed in `<' and `>'). SEND-PR: SEND-PR: Please consult the following URL if you are not sure how to SEND-PR: fill out a problem report: SEND-PR: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/ SEND-PR: SEND-PR: Note that the Synopsis field is mandatory. SEND-PR: SEND-PR: Please note that (unless you state otherwise) if your report SEND-PR: includes a patch then it will be taken under the same license as SEND-PR: the one on the file(s) you want to change. SEND-PR: SEND-PR: BE ADVISED THAT FREEBSD PROBLEM REPORTS ARE PUBLIC INFORMATION AND SEND-PR: WILL BE PUBLISHED AS-IS ON THE PROJECT'S MAILING LISTS AND WEB SITES. SEND-PR: DO NOT SUBMIT ANY INFORMATION YOU DO NOT WANT MADE PUBLIC. SEND-PR: SEND-PR: If you wish to submit a problem report confidentially, then contact SEND-PR: the FreeBSD bugmaster (bugmaster@FreeBSD.org) to arrange for a SEND-PR: relevant developer to be contacted. SEND-PR: SEND-PR: For sensitive security issues, consider contacting the FreeBSD SEND-PR: security officer team (security-officer@freebsd.org) directly. SEND-PR: SEND-PR: Choose from the following categories: SEND-PR: SEND-PR: advocacy alpha amd64 bin conf docs SEND-PR: gnu i386 ia64 java kern misc SEND-PR: ports powerpc sparc64 standards sun4v threads SEND-PR: usb www SEND-PR: To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org From: Julian H. Stacey X-send-pr-version: 3.113 X-GNATS-Notify: >Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator: Julian H. Stacey >Organization: http://www.berklix.com >Confidential: no >Synopsis: Fix misleading man 1 split >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Category: bin >Class: change-request >Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 >Environment: System: FreeBSD laps.js.berklix.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Dec 5 22:11:04 CET 2007 jhs@laps.js.berklix.net:/usr1/ftp/pri/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/686/src/sys/i386/compile/LAPS.small i386 >Description: The word "smaller" is misleading, as on first reading, one assumes -b will create smaller than default size, & only if one tries to specify eg -b 1000000 does one discover one can get "smaller" files of 1000000 that are larger than the default of ~70K (taking split /var/log/messages.0 as example) >How-To-Repeat: man split >Fix: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/usr.bin/split/split.1.REL=ALL.diff