Bug 184459

Summary:	Documentation Bug in the man Page for the who Command
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Troels Vedel Kløjgaard <chrysokephalos>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Benjamin Kaduk <bjk>
Status:	Closed Works As Intended
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	bjk
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Troels Vedel Kløjgaard 2013-12-02 23:00:00 UTC

OS X Mountain Lion ships with the FreeBSD implementation of the who command and the pertinent documentation, including the man page. This man page states erroneously in the last section, titled "History", that "A who utility appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX". The text should read: "A who utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX". The who command was among the first 60 UNIX commands, presented in the first edition of "UNIX Programmer's Manual" (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, November 3, 1971), as documented by Peter H. Salus: A Quarter Century of UNIX. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1995, page 41f.

Fix: 

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How-To-Repeat: N/A

Comment 1 Benjamin Kaduk freebsd_committer

2014-06-08 02:23:32 UTC

The V1 UNIX man page for who(1) appears to be available at
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man1/who.1

Comment 2 Benjamin Kaduk freebsd_committer

2014-06-08 02:45:09 UTC

And in fact, the FreeBSD who.1 was adjusted to reflect this fact in r17891:
r17891 | wosch | 1996-08-29 14:06:19 -0400 (Thu, 29 Aug 1996) | 3 lines

[HISTORY] command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX
Obtained from: A Quarter Century of UNIX, Peter H. Salus, page 41



I am not sure why OS X Mountain Lion does not have this change, and can only suggest filing a bug report with Apple.