Re: minor tcpdump.8 inconsistency

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:33:14AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk> 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"?
>
> The situation is a bit more subtle than that. Just above, the manual
> page leads with this header.
>
> The general format of a TCP protocol line is:
>
> src > dst: flags src-os data-seqno ack window urgent options
>
> It is saying there's a section of the line regarding the _window_, then a
> section regarding _urgent_, then a section regarding _options_. In the
> next paragraph it vaguely describes each of these without getting into
> the specifics of the actual printed format (for instance, _window_ is
> actually printed as " win %u".
>
> The .Ar above are the "section names" of the line. I think Tim's diff is
> right.
>
>

ok, i see your point (after a bit of head scratching). i'll commit the
diff then.

jmc