From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 24 22: 9:14 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 C8C0037B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CEFD43E8A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8P58c9R010645; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:08:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:08:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020924.230835.65701998.imp@bsdimp.com> To: bakul@bitblocks.com Cc: peter@wemm.org, ache@nagual.pp.ru, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, julian@elischer.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200209242140.RAA14789@marlborough.cnchost.com> References: <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <200209242140.RAA14789@marlborough.cnchost.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In message: <200209242140.RAA14789@marlborough.cnchost.com> Bakul Shah writes: : > 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:-) : : I personally think that the + syntax should be disabled only if _POSIX_ME_HARDER was defined in the environment. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message