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Defect Report concerning (number and title of International Standard
or DIS final text, if applicable):
Interpretation Number: 006
Topic: Defect in XCU sed
Relevant Sections: sed rfile
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7 Defect Report concerning (number and title of International Standard
or DIS final text, if applicable):
The Shell and Utilities Volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
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8 Qualifier (e.g. error, omission, clarification required):
1. Error
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9 References in document (e.g. page, clause, figure, and/or table
numbers):
Page: 840 Line: 32387 Section: sed
XCUft5 Enhancement Request Number 1
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10 Nature of defect (complete, concise explanation of the perceived
problem):
The word "optional" should not be present in the following text:
"The r and w command verbs, and the w flag to the s command, take
an optional rfile (or wfile) parameter"
In the detailed descriptions of the r, w and s commands (lines 32471,
32504 and 32512), the rfile and wfile parameters are not in square
brackets, and no mention is made of them being optional, nor any
indication given of how sed should behave if they are omitted.
The rfile and wfile parameters clearly are not optional (whereas
for ed they are - as can be seen by comparing the corresponding
parts of the sed and ed descriptions).
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11 Solution proposed by the submitter (optional):
Delete the word "optional".
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Interpretation response
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The standard is unclear on this issue, and no conformance
distinction can be made between alternative implementations based
on this. This is being referred to the sponsor.
Rationale:
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None.
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