Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:33:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' Message-ID: <200204261633.g3QGXnM41912@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020425.234435.29376552.imp@village.org> References: <20020426000849.C43192@espresso.q9media.com> <20020425.221245.99497735.imp@village.org> <20020426010202.E43192@espresso.q9media.com> <20020425.234435.29376552.imp@village.org>
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<<On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:44:35 -0600 (MDT), "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> said: > Is there a "clarification" to the standard that clarifies this? I > don't recall the name of the clarifications, but I think that Garrett > has submitted them. Formally, one submits an ``interpretation request''. Interps for 1003.1-2001 are being handled by The Open Group through their ``aardvark'' system. My personal feeling is that, regardless of what the standard may say, the most useful procedure is to deal with the observed fact that users consider files without newlines at the end to be text files, and to expect the text-processing tools to work properly is not at all unreasonable. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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