Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 678407
[RHEL 5] ipcs and ipcrm in wrong man section
Last modified: 2012-02-20 22:20:18 EST
Description of problem: The ipcs manpage states: The ipcs utility accepts the following options: [...] If -q, -m, or -s are specified, only information about those facilities shall be written. If none of these three are specified, information about all three shall be written subject to the following options: [...] -a Use all print options. (This is a shorthand notation for -b, -c, -o, -p, and -t.) -b Write information on maximum allowable size. (Maximum number of bytes in messages on queue for message queues, size of segments for shared memory, and number of semaphores in each set for semaphores.) However the -b option does not appear to be valid: # ipcs -b ipcs: invalid option -- b usage : ipcs -asmq -tclup ipcs [-s -m -q] -i id ipcs -h for help. This reference should be removed from the man page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.13-0.56.el5.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # man ipcs # ipcs -b Actual results: Manpage lists an option that does not work Expected results: Manpage lists only valid options
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(In reply to comment #0) > The ipcs utility accepts the following options: > [...] > > If -q, -m, or -s are specified, only information about those facilities > shall be written. If none of these three are specified, information about all > three shall be written subject to the following options: This text is from POSIX ipcs(1p) from man-pages package, not from ipcs(8) from util-linux package. Try "man 8 ipcs" and "man 1p ipcs". The util-linux man page does not contain any information about the -b option. Anyway, util-linux upstream solution is to move the ipcs and ipcrm man pages from section 8 to the section 1.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0307.html