Bug 592237

Summary: rtacct - undocumented option
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: iprouteAssignee: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
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Priority: low    
Version: 6.0CC: ovasik, plautrba, syeghiay
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Description Milos Malik 2010-05-14 10:30:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
Usage message contains 0 UNSUPPORTED option(s):
Usage message OMITS 1 supported option(s):
	-M
Man page contains 0 UNSUPPORTED option(s):
Man page OMITS 1 supported option(s):
	-M


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iproute-2.6.32-5.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# ./compare-options.sh `which rtacct`
Program path:
	/usr/sbin/rtacct
Guessing man page path:
	/usr/share/man/man8/rtacct.8.gz
According to binary analysis the binary supports 12 option(s):
	-?
	-M
	-V
	-a
	-d
	-h
	-n
	-r
	-s
	-t
	-v
	-z

  
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Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-14 10:54:20 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-21 14:15:49 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 3 Petr Lautrbach 2010-06-10 15:21:44 UTC 
This is upstream intention.

misc/rtacct.c:
		case 'M':
			/* Some secret undocumented option, nobody
			 * is expected to ask about its sense. See?
			 */
			sscanf(optarg, "%lx", &magic_number);
			break;