Thursday, October 31, 2019

Re: minor tcpdump.8 inconsistency

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 05:23:12PM +0000, Jason McIntyre wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Tim Kuijsten wrote:
> > minor inconsistency
> >
> > diff --git a/tcpdump.8 b/tcpdump.8
> > index ce16951..8c2cf33 100644
> > --- a/tcpdump.8
> > +++ b/tcpdump.8
> > @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ end of this connection.
> > .Ar window
> > is the number of bytes of receive buffer space available
> > at the other end of this connection.
> > -.Ar urg
> > +.Ar urgent
> > indicates there is urgent data in the packet.
> > .Ar options
> > are TCP options enclosed in angle brackets e.g.,
> >
>
> hi.
>
> have you established that it's the documentation that is wrong? i.e.
> that "urgent" is printed, and not actually "urg"?
>
> jmc
>

It is "urg". The correct diff is this, I think.

-Otto

Index: tcpdump.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.8,v
retrieving revision 1.107
diff -u -p -r1.107 tcpdump.8
--- tcpdump.8 25 Sep 2019 17:02:00 -0000 1.107
+++ tcpdump.8 31 Oct 2019 17:28:59 -0000
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ will be of much use to you.
The general format of a TCP protocol line is:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Ar src No > Ar dst :
-.Ar flags src-os data-seqno ack window urgent options
+.Ar flags src-os data-seqno ack window urg options
.Ed
.Pp
.Ar src

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