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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-02 03:07:42 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-02 03:07:42 +0000
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Document incorrect handling of multibyte characters with -I and -J options.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 b/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
index bfafea0..57f2c03 100644
--- a/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
+++ b/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\" $xMach: xargs.1,v 1.2 2002/02/23 05:23:37 tim Exp $
.\"
-.Dd May 7, 2001
+.Dd August 2, 2004
.Dt XARGS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -312,3 +312,12 @@ size of the environment is increased, it risks
.Xr execvp 3
failing with
.Er E2BIG .
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+utility does not take multibyte characters into account when performing
+string comparisons for the
+.Fl I
+and
+.Fl J
+options, which may lead to incorrect results in some locales.
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