standards/61934: [PATCH] FreeBSD's mailx not completely SUSv3-compliant

[Wartan Hachaturow]

The following reply was made to PR standards/61934; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wartan Hachaturow <wart at tepkom.ru>
To: Mike Heffner <mheffner at vt.edu>
Cc: Wartan Hachaturow <wart at tepkom.ru>,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: standards/61934: [PATCH] FreeBSD's mailx not completely	SUSv3-compliant
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:37:35 +0300

 On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:59:59AM -0500, Mike Heffner wrote:
 
 > I've done a quick first pass, comments are inlined.
 
 Okay, thanks for looking at this :) I'll fix the issues you're
 pointed at, and submit a new version of the patch.
 
 > checkmail and use it instead for the -e option? Also, the fprintf that
 > displays "No mail for ..." should not be printed when using the -e option.
 > SuSv3 states that when using the -e option, nothing should be printed.
 
 Well, I've interpreted the phrase "The mailx utility shall write nothing
 and exit with a successful return code if there is mail to read" like
 that "one should not print anything in "there is mail" case". 
 Of course, since most prospective use of -e is in scripts, printing
 in "no mail" case is, perhaps, futile :)
 
 -- 
 Regards, Wartan.
 "Be different: conform."