Debian Bug report logs -
#1019344
coreutils: stty: * (non-POSIX) markings in manual wrong
Reported by: наб <[email protected] >
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 15:54:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version coreutils/8.32-4
Reply or subscribe to this bug.
Display info messages
Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text , mbox , reply ):
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.32-4+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
With some text processing of the Issue 8 Draft 2.1 and stty --help,
I produced this listing of correct markings for coreutils:
-- >8 --
$ sed -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/^ -/-/' gnu-minus-posix | tr '-' '\t' | LC_ALL=C sort -b | tr '\t' - | LC_ALL=C uniq -cs1 | sed -e 's/1 /1 /' -e 's/2 -/1 [-]/' | tr '1' \* | tr -s ' ' | LC_ALL=C sort | tee markings.s
* -cooked
* -xcase
* [-]cbreak
* [-]cmspar
* [-]crterase
* [-]crtkill
* [-]crtscts
* [-]ctlecho
* [-]decctlq
* [-]drain
* [-]echoctl
* [-]echoke
* [-]echoprt
* [-]extproc
* [-]flusho
* [-]imaxbel
* [-]iutf8
* [-]litout
* [-]pass8
* [-]prterase
* [-]tandem
* columns
* crt
* dec
* discard
* eol2
* line
* lnext
* rprnt
* speed
* swtch
* werase
-- >8 --
Of note:
* [-]iuclc xcase [-]olcuc [-]lcase [-]LCASE
are removed in Issue 5 (but still mentioned in the CHANGE HISTORY)
* this means that -xcase isn't. but there also isn't a -xcase
(the functionality was removed, so I assume this is either an error
in the log, or it was never there, cba to check rn)
* size rows cols
are new in Issue 8
* this is strictly denominational w.r.t. aliases,
which is the only correct approach,
but the current usage string isn't
* [-]onlcr [-]ocrnl [-]onocr [-]onlret [-]ofill [-]ofdel cr[0123]
nl[01] tab[0123] [-]tabs bs[01] ff[01] vt[01] [-]raw cooked
are all shaded XSI
* raw equivalent is to the prescribed one
(but the prescribed one is odd, so)
Which yields this table:
-- >8 --
# Missing markings Extraneous markings Correct markings
$ LC_ALL=C comm markings.s gnu-markings.s | expand -t 25
* -cooked
* -crtkill
* -tabs
* -xcase
* [-]LCASE
* [-]cbreak
* [-]cmspar
* [-]crterase
* [-]crtkill
* [-]crtscts
* [-]ctlecho
* [-]decctlq
* [-]drain
* [-]echoctl
* [-]echoke
* [-]echoprt
* [-]extproc
* [-]flusho
* [-]imaxbel
* [-]iuclc
* [-]iutf8
* [-]ixany
* [-]lcase
* [-]litout
* [-]ocrnl
* [-]ofdel
* [-]ofill
* [-]olcuc
* [-]onlcr
* [-]onlret
* [-]onocr
* [-]pass8
* [-]prterase
* [-]tandem
* [-]tostop
* [-]xcase
* bsN
* cols
* columns
* crN
* crt
* crtkill
* dec
* discard
* eol2
* ffN
* line
* lnext
* nlN
* rows
* rprnt
* size
* speed
* swtch
* tabN
* tabs
* vtN
* werase
-- >8 --
Best,
наб
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.53-10
ii libattr1 1:2.4.48-6
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]
Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text , mbox , reply ):
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi!
On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 05:51:11PM +0200, наб wrote:
> With some text processing of the Issue 8 Draft 2.1 and stty --help,
> I produced this listing of correct markings for coreutils:
>
> Of note:
> * [-]iuclc xcase [-]olcuc [-]lcase [-]LCASE
> are removed in Issue 5 (but still mentioned in the CHANGE HISTORY)
> * this means that -xcase isn't. but there also isn't a -xcase
> (the functionality was removed, so I assume this is either an error
> in the log, or it was never there, cba to check rn)
I have since validated this, reported it upstream, and this was an
error, supposed to read xcase(-xcase), and will be fixed in Draft 3:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] /msg10129.html
The updated listing of correct markings is:
-- >8 --
* -cooked
* [-]cbreak
* [-]cmspar
* [-]crterase
* [-]crtkill
* [-]crtscts
* [-]ctlecho
* [-]decctlq
* [-]drain
* [-]echoctl
* [-]echoke
* [-]echoprt
* [-]extproc
* [-]flusho
* [-]imaxbel
* [-]iutf8
* [-]litout
* [-]pass8
* [-]prterase
* [-]tandem
* columns
* crt
* dec
* discard
* eol2
* line
* lnext
* rprnt
* speed
* swtch
* werase
-- >8 --
And diff against these is:
-- >8 --
# Missing markings Extraneous markings Correct markings
* -cooked
* -crtkill
* -tabs
* [-]LCASE
* [-]cbreak
* [-]cmspar
* [-]crterase
* [-]crtkill
* [-]crtscts
* [-]ctlecho
* [-]decctlq
* [-]drain
* [-]echoctl
* [-]echoke
* [-]echoprt
* [-]extproc
* [-]flusho
* [-]imaxbel
* [-]iuclc
* [-]iutf8
* [-]ixany
* [-]lcase
* [-]litout
* [-]ocrnl
* [-]ofdel
* [-]ofill
* [-]olcuc
* [-]onlcr
* [-]onlret
* [-]onocr
* [-]pass8
* [-]prterase
* [-]tandem
* [-]tostop
* [-]xcase
* bsN
* cols
* columns
* crN
* crt
* crtkill
* dec
* discard
* eol2
* ffN
* line
* lnext
* nlN
* rows
* rprnt
* size
* speed
* swtch
* tabN
* tabs
* vtN
* werase
-- >8 --
Best,
наб
[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]
Send a report that this bug log contains spam .
Debian bug tracking system administrator <[email protected] >.
Last modified:
Tue May 13 09:17:29 2025;
Machine Name:
buxtehude
Debian Bug tracking system
Debbugs is free software and licensed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 2. The current version can be obtained
from https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/ .
Copyright © 1999 Darren O. Benham,
1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd,
1994-97 Ian Jackson,
2005-2017 Don Armstrong, and many other contributors.