Coreutils POSIX changes not documented in release notes

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:12:13PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>     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.
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>>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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>I apologize for being intemperate, Rahul.
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You are probably annoyed with the change which is very understandable, 
having been a web administrator for large data centers in my previous 
life but this isnt the right forum for expressing your distaste with 
this particular change since we are pretty much inheriting a upstream 
change. The info manual you quote which hasnt changed for a few releases 
didnt help me understand the context and the significance of this change 
in this release and I freely admit to be blissfully unaware of this 
change until it was specifically pointed out to me since all my work on 
Fedora (including tracking the current development tree) is done on my 
personal time which has been increasingly limited. Thank you for bring 
this to our attention.

>The default version is now _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 not 199209.
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Ah. That makes much better sense. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/PackageNotes


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Rahul