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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2025-06-05 14:46:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-06-11 13:56:51 +0200 |
| commit | d1324c82d0fedb45678d7c74cda2200f14f75a72 (patch) | |
| tree | d2a8b9d7262d9db312b1c56966e431f5bd6ab666 | |
| parent | 9fbe8215606e577f66aea30b1106815e7143bdce (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-d1324c82d0fedb45678d7c74cda2200f14f75a72.tar.gz | |
man/man1/iconv.1: Mention that -c does not change exit status
And that input decoding failures are treated as errors.
Exiting with status 0 is a POSIX conformance issue that was fixed
in glibc 2.41.
Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <87msamxso9.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/iconv.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/iconv.1 b/man/man1/iconv.1 index 2c8ae0d29c..fba5a4a766 100644 --- a/man/man1/iconv.1 +++ b/man/man1/iconv.1 @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ is appended to .IR to-encoding , characters that cannot be converted are discarded and an error is printed after conversion. +(Characters that cannot be decoded are treated as an error +with or without this flag.) .IP If the string .B //TRANSLIT @@ -73,8 +75,11 @@ transliterated are replaced with a question mark (?) in the output. List all known character set encodings. .TP .B \-c -Silently discard characters that cannot be converted instead of +Discard characters that cannot be converted instead of terminating when encountering such characters. +.\" glibc commit 6cbf845fcdc76131d0e674cee454fe738b69c69d +POSIX requires that this option does not change +the exit status of the program. .TP .BI \-\-output= outputfile .TQ |