Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:48:40 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file utility POSIX complience Message-ID: <20061101144840.GA53415@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20061101112037.GA1087@schweikhardt.net> References: <454863A4.2080106@enderunix.org> <20061101112037.GA1087@schweikhardt.net>
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--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:20:37PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:06:44AM +0200, Baris Simsek wrote: > # Hi, > #=20 > # I was looking for the non-POSIX FreeBSD utilities from here: > #=20 > # http://people.freebsd.org/~schweikh/posix-utilities.html#file > #=20 > # He talks about -d -h and -M options currently not available. > #=20 > # And i did a quick source to find original related document of POSIX. I= =20 > # met following PDFs may be interesting: > #=20 > # http://www.opengroup.org/rtforum/uploads/40/7319/POSIX_and_Linux_Applic= ation_Compatibility_v0.92_released_22_April_05.pdf > #=20 > # 9th page and 6th item says that: > # The Linux file utility is not required to support the ?M, ?h, ?d, and= =20 > # the ?i options. The portable application shall not use these options. > #=20 > # Is there a contradiction between them? >=20 > No. The file utility POSIX spec is available here: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/file.html > As you see, the -d/h/m/M options are marked UP (part of User Portability > extension). Our -i option does something different from POSIX. >=20 > # I wonder that what jobs these options should perform? >=20 > See the Open Group's POSIX spec above. >=20 > # And is there any > # developer currently working on it? >=20 > Not that I know of. Volunteers welcome. Said volunteer would need to work the the actual author of our file implementation, Christos Zoulas of NetBSD. -- Brooks --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSLPHXY6L6fI4GtQRAm+PAJ0f4TrnzQELUrvLpFtaxvH1gd9VZwCg0Fm8 Gt7tLrepIFIe2XuhDd60d3Y= =BfrK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--
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