From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 24 15:12:38 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 230C037B401; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2507743E75; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (orb_rules@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8OMCUPt004095; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:12:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g8OMCUsm004094; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:12:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:12:30 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Julian Elischer , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <20020924221230.GL2009@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20020924203449.42E932A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EVcIhgQsEzAXu06J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! 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 --EVcIhgQsEzAXu06J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:03:15PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:49 AM +0400 9/25/02, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > >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. >=20 > What ever happened to the idea of using '--' to mean "all the following > arguments are files, even if they look like options"? >=20 > After all, every other option is also "a valid filename", so what is > so special about "+N"? >=20 > We can preserve anything we want to preserve, and document where our > sort command is different from posix. Maybe at some future time it > will be less painful to drop +N, but we will have enough pain with > release 5.0 that we don't need to add this incompatible change. >=20 > Just MO, of course. FWIW, I also agree. Furthermore, if you 'fix' sort, you should fix less also (and possibly othe= rs): [stijn@pcwin165] less +COMMENT=20 Missing filename ("less --help" for help) admittedly this is on -STABLE, but I don't think it's different on -CURRENT. And I know less is probably not in POSIX, but I'm thinking about consistenc= y. --Stijn --=20 "What if everything you see is more than what you see -- the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to anoth= er world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or = you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it real= ly is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." -- Shigeru Miyamoto --EVcIhgQsEzAXu06J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9kONOY3r/tLQmfWcRAsD7AKC0Jaf3tplb4nxxTgOb/WphJYHI3wCeMZpl Utd/MxdXJ3a+sfbB5//Qsjo= =OPpU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVcIhgQsEzAXu06J-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message