Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:03:15 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <p05111701b9b690600e72@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20020924203449.42E932A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209241338580.41579-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru>
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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. What ever happened to the idea of using '--' to mean "all the following arguments are files, even if they look like options"? After all, every other option is also "a valid filename", so what is so special about "+N"? 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. Just MO, of course. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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