Re: man: Problems in dash.1, sh.1, sh.distrib.1

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:27:37AM -0400, esr@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> This is automatically generated email about markup problems in a man
> page for which you appear to be responsible.  If you are not the right
> person or list, please tell me so I can correct my database.
> 
> See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/bugs.html for details on how and
> why these patches were generated.  Feel free to email me with any
> questions.  Note: These patches do not change the modification date of
> any manual page.  You may wish to do that by hand.
> 
> I apologize if this message seems spammy or impersonal. The volume of
> markup bugs I am tracking is over five hundred - there is no real
> alternative to generating bugmail from a database and template.
> ---
>                              Eric S. Raymond
> Problems with dash.1:
> 
> (Identical patches should apply to: sh.1 sh.distrib.1)
> 
> Ambiguous or invalid backslash.  This doesn't cause groff a problem.
> but it confuses doclifter and may confuse older troff implementations.
> 
> --- dash.1-unpatched	2018-05-16 16:52:28.478288208 -0400
> +++ dash.1	2018-05-16 16:52:28.182290220 -0400
> @@ -1825,7 +1825,7 @@
>  .Ic shift
>  will issue an error message, and exit with return status 2.
>  .It test Ar expression
> -.It \&[ Ar expression Cm ]
> +.It \&[ Ar expression Cm \&]

Patch applied but as you can see above I've restored the Cm which
was deleted by your original patch.

Thanks,
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