From 5daf0f340412e5733da4e3e474ebbb867c2ebf86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:26:42 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs: document NetBSD join bug * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) : Mention bug in -a parsing. Reported by J.T. Conklin. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ doc/autoconf.texi | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c71bf012d..14abf5143 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2011-04-27 Eric Blake + + docs: document NetBSD join bug + * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) : Mention + bug in -a parsing. + Reported by J.T. Conklin. + 2011-04-13 Eric Blake maint: reflect recent copyright assignments diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index d553f4aa9..b466e5609 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -18809,6 +18809,9 @@ cat file | join file - Use @samp{join - file} instead. +On NetBSD, @command{join -a 1 file1 file2} mistakenly behaves like +@command{join -a 1 -a 2 1 file1 file2}, resulting in a usage warning; +the workaround is to use @command{join -a1 file1 file2} instead. @item @command{ln} @c --------------- -- 2.47.3