Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:35:49 GMT From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/135475: [patch] jot(1) manpage and behaviour differ Message-ID: <200906111235.n5BCZnjd012042@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200906111240.n5BCe3K2071401@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 135475 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [patch] jot(1) manpage and behaviour differ >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 11 12:40:03 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jonathan McKeown >Release: 7.1-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD vorkosigan.ru.ac.za 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: The way jot(1) defaults missing arguments doesn't match the behaviour described in the manpage, which states that with fewer than 3 arguments missing values are supplied from left to right. In fact, with one or two arguments, the last (s which is step size or seed) defaults to 1 (or -1 if begin and end specify a descending range), and then omitted arguments are set to default starting with the leftmost until three arguments are available. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: I have attached a patch to the manpage. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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