Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 01:06:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: baram@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su segfaults, why? Message-ID: <199907270506.BAA08473@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199907270454.AAA08363@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> from "Crist J. Clark" at "Jul 27, 99 00:54:37 am"
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[Yeah, yeah, I know a followup to my own message. Sorry.] Crist J. Clark wrote, > [*] The docs on the '-c' switch in the description do not match its > usage in the examples. The switch seems to work like it does in > the examples. I'll file a PR after I check if this has not already > been pointed out. Figured this out. In the examples at the bottom, the '-c' switch is being passed to the shell. The shell then interprets the string following the '-c' as input. The manpage is correct. You have to think carefully about the second, and really the third too, examples at the bottom to figure out what is going on. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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