makemap -t/-u clarification (PSARC 2008/299)

[John Beck]

I am self-sponsoring this case, which I am marking closed approved
automatic, as the change is coming from upstream (sendmail.org in this
case) and hence is beyond Sun's control.  The interface is Committed
and, since no back-port is planned at this time, I am going for Minor
as the release binding.

Version 8.14.3 of sendmail introduces a slight change to the makemap
utility to clarify how the -t and -u options interact.  Prior to version
8.14.3, white space was used as the delimiter when -u was in effect
regardless of whether -t was specified or not, but this was considered
a bug that 8.14.3 fixed.  So it has been requested that the man page
be clarified so that anyone who thought the old behavior was by design
will know that it was not, and this case's purpose is to establish that
clarification.  A full diff'd makemap(1m) is in the materials directory
for this case, but the relevant `diff -U5` is in-line below.

--- makemap.1m.old	Mon Apr 21 17:18:03 2008
+++ makemap.1m.new	Mon Apr 21 17:19:28 2008
@@ -74,11 +74,14 @@
 
      -t delim          Use  the   specified   delimiter   (delim)
 		       instead of white space.
 
      -u                Dump (unmap) the content of  the  database
-		       to standard output.
+		       to standard output.    Note that if the -t
+		       option is also in provided,  the specified
+		       delimiter will be used when the content is
+		       dumped instead of white space.
 
      -v                Verbosely print what it is doing.
 
 
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-- John

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