Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:52:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/12358: Patch: "camcontrol help" should go to stdout Message-ID: <199906222252.AAA02365@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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>Number: 12358
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Patch: "camcontrol help" should go to stdout
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 23 00:40:02 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Christian Weisgerber
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
"camcontrol help" outputs usage information to stderr rather than
stdout. This is non-standard behavior. Usage information should
only be written to stderr if an error condition has occurred, i.e.
if the arguments don't satisfy the syntax requirements of a command.
An explicit request for a help page is not an error condition.
Somewhat more pragmatically phrased: You should be able to catch the
output of "camcontrol help" with your pager.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ camcontrol help | more
>Fix:
src/sbin/camcontrol/:
--- camcontrol.c.orig Thu Jun 10 18:14:18 1999
+++ camcontrol.c Wed Jun 23 00:38:24 1999
@@ -2586,7 +2586,7 @@
void
usage(int verbose)
{
- fprintf(stderr,
+ fprintf(verbose ? stdout : stderr,
"usage: camcontrol <command> [device id][generic args][command args]\n"
" camcontrol devlist [-v]\n"
" camcontrol periphlist [dev_id][-n dev_name] [-u unit]\n"
@@ -2611,7 +2611,7 @@
" camcontrol help\n");
if (!verbose)
return;
- fprintf(stderr,
+ fprintf(stdout,
"Specify one of the following options:\n"
"devlist list all CAM devices\n"
"periphlist list all CAM peripheral drivers attached to a device\n"
>Release-Note:
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