From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 24 13:52:58 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E0637B404; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BC143E6A; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8OKqW4v005800; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:52:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Julian Elischer , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:49:54 +0400." <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:52:32 +0200 Message-ID: <5799.1032900752@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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