From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] man/man1/iconv.1: Mention that -c does not change exit status
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:46:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87msamxso9.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
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>
---
man/man1/iconv.1 | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man1/iconv.1 b/man/man1/iconv.1
index 2c8ae0d29..111ff9e89 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
base-commit: 3c2e9ebe2d5ea15a47c1669f75b280cea42a6f8b
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2025-06-05 12:46 Florian Weimer [this message]
2025-06-05 14:41 ` [PATCH] man/man1/iconv.1: Mention that -c does not change exit status Carlos O'Donell
2025-06-11 8:29 ` Alejandro Colomar
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