Bug 85433 - help and getopt mismatch in 'free' (quickie)
Summary: help and getopt mismatch in 'free' (quickie)
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: procps
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Larsson
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-02 17:39 UTC by Matthew S. Hallacy
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-09-25 08:54:25 UTC
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Description Matthew S. Hallacy 2003-03-02 17:39:21 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper: 
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1) 
 
Description of problem: 
usage: free [-b|-k|-m|-g] [-l] [-o] [-t] [-s delay] [-c count] [-V] 
                                        ^^ 
        -b,-k,-m,-g show output in bytes, KB, MB, or GB 
        -h show detailed low and high memory statistics 
      ^^^^ 
 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
 
 
How reproducible: 
Always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. free -h 
   
 
Actual Results:  'invalid usage' 
 
Expected Results:  should have printed detailed high/low memory usage. 
 
Additional info: 
 
*** free.orig   2003-03-02 11:34:41.000000000 -0600 
--- free.c      2003-03-02 11:34:50.000000000 -0600 
*************** 
*** 33,39 **** 
                "[-b|-k|-m|-g] [-l] [-o] [-t] [-s delay] [-c count] [-V]\n", 
                cmdline); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-b,-k,-m,-g show output in bytes, KB, MB, or GB\n"); 
!       fprintf(stderr,"\t-h show detailed low and high memory statistics\n"); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-o use old format (no -/+buffers/cache line)\n"); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-t display total for RAM + swap\n"); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-s update every [delay] seconds\n"); 
--- 33,39 ---- 
                "[-b|-k|-m|-g] [-l] [-o] [-t] [-s delay] [-c count] [-V]\n", 
                cmdline); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-b,-k,-m,-g show output in bytes, KB, MB, or GB\n"); 
!       fprintf(stderr,"\t-l show detailed low and high memory statistics\n"); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-o use old format (no -/+buffers/cache line)\n"); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-t display total for RAM + swap\n"); 
        fprintf(stderr,"\t-s update every [delay] seconds\n"); 
 
^- diff -rc fix.

Comment 1 Matthew S. Hallacy 2003-03-02 17:40:25 UTC
whoops,  
 
rpm -q procps 
procps-2.0.11-1 
 

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2003-03-11 13:22:37 UTC
This has been fixed in procps cvs after the 2.0.11 release. We'll get it when we
import the next release.



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