[docs-discuss] diff(1) man page doesn't correspond to /bin/diff

[Alan Coopersmith]

Make sure your MANPATH is set with /usr/share/man before /usr/gnu/man.
The default 2008.11 MANPATH matches the default 2008.11 PATH of having
the GNU utilties first.

	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Richard Friedman wrote:
> Looks like the diff man page is not describing the right version of diff in /usr/bin and /bin, on 2008.11.
> In particular, the man page mentions -y, but diff complains if you try to use it. The summary output by diff also doesn't look like what's described in the man page.
> 
> I submitted a bug report on this, 
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5584
> 
> I wonder if there are others like this?
> 
> And, how did it happen?
> 
> Interestingly, the diff man page on my Solaris 10 SPARC box describes the diff in OS 2008.11 (no -y).