Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:52:32 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <5799.1032900752@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:49:54 %2B0400." <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru>
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In message <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru>, "Andrey A. Chernov" writes: >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 13:39:55 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> This is silly.. the +POS syntax is probably one of the most commonly >> used syntaxes for sort. > >Talk with POSIX people about it. +N is valid filename per POSIX, so old >syntax can't be preserved. Decisions like this should make us reconsider the desirability of POSIX compliance or even "near-POSIX" compliance. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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