Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:40:09 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <200209242140.RAA14789@marlborough.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:20:09 PDT." <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
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> Turn off the silly feature in sort(1) the first place. Let people request > it by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 if they want to sort a filename that > begins with a +. Or, use 'sort ./+file' like they would already have to > do for just about every other unix OS on the planet. Not that you need support but I have to chime up and say I agree entirely. Backward compatibility trumps standard compliance. Standards fundamentalism may be good for one's soul but bad in real life -- too many innocent programs die:-) <flame-suit on> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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