The following reply was made to PR bin/55947; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tim Robbins <tjr at FreeBSD.ORG> To: bug-followup at freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/55947 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:16:27 +1000 This bug is documented in the manual page. It's not easy to fix, and borrowing code from NetBSD would introduce more bugs.