On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:38:23PM +0200, you wrote:
* Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060605 12:22]:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:54:28AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>I really am convinced that change would make more harm that il would
>avoid.
Fine, argue upstream & with the posix committee.
Hm, seems that I missed that posix now requires us to not allow +n
anymore. When was that added?
The 2001 version finally removed the +n form, which was marked as
obsolescent for a long time prior to that. It's part of an ongoing
effort to rationalize the standard utilities. (They should all follow
the "utility syntax guidelines"[1], so there are fewer special cases to
worry about.) The only exception I can think of offhand is dd, which is
such a martian that there's no chance of sanely transitioning it.
Mike Stone
1.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02
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