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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 01:36:37 -0700
BUG in XCU
@ page 374 section false comment
Problem:

The current phrasing of the SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS and OPERANDS for the
false and true commands imply that the behaviour of this command is
undefined when options are passed.  GNU sh-utils, in particular, have
used this definition as a motivation for implementing options that
change the behaviour of this command (--help and --version).

A number of shell scripts and administrator hacks, however, rely on
the classical behaviour of these commands, which is to ignore all
arguments, including, where relevant, argv[0].  I therefore recommend
that this behaviour be codified.

Action:

Here and also at
page 787 section true comment

Replace the OPTIONS and OPERANDS sections from "None." to "This
command ignores all options/operands."

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