Re: Coreutils POSIX changes not documented in release notes

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 06:42:17PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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> > This seems unrelated to the man page entry you quoted. Can you find more 
> > information on this and provide us the content?
> >    
>
> I don't mean to be an ass, but do you read before you mouth off?  Judging by
> the fedora-* list traffic, no. 
It would be help to be more courteous than that. Not sure what the 
reference on fedora mailing list traffic is all about. Feel free to mail 
me offlist about that.

> Let's try again:
>
>       1003.1-2001.  For example, if you have a newer system but are running
>       software that assumes an older version of POSIX and uses `sort +1' or
>       `tail +10', you can work around any compatibility problems by setting
>       `_POSIX2_VERSION=199209' in your environment.
>
> Sorry, I'm cranky.  Now I have to go put a wrapper around coreutils and
> log old-style arguments.
The exact same text appears in the earlier Fedora Core  versions info 
manuals. I am just puzzled at what has changed between FC4 and rawhide 
versions now.

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Rahul