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Date:      Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:32:20 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>
Subject:   Re: tar -l  versus  gtar -l
Message-ID:  <m3llgvi1ff.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040804022716.GD10301@dragon.nuxi.com> (David O'Brien's message of "Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:27:16 -0700")
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

>> POSIX have higher importance. We should ignore any GNUisms in favour of 
>> POSIX overriding ones (at least to pass POSIX tests suite).
>
> But past FreeBSD (and BSD) practices should override POSIX.

Guys, please remember this is -CURRENT, not -STABLE.

Any standards conformance issues we're aware of and that are easily
fixed should be ironed out BEFORE going -STABLE or we'll be stuck with
them for another five years.

-- 
Matthias Andree

Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)



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