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Re: doc improvements
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: doc improvements |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:44:54 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-10-28) |
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:03:17PM CET:
> I will probably push these shortly. One is a bad comment in configure files,
> another is related to this thread:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/20074
>
> It turns out that the set size issue is already mentioned in POSIX:
> "When the −d option is not specified: ...When the array specified by string2
> is
> shorter that the one specified by string1, the results are unspecified."
Thanks for analyzing the issue, and documenting it again.
> +When providing two arguments, be sure the second string is at least as
> +long as the first.
> +
> address@hidden
> +$ @kbd{echo abc | /usr/xpg4/bin/tr bc d}
> +adc
> +$ @kbd{echo abc | tr bc d}
> +add
Is it clear which tr is invoked here?
Thanks,
Ralf