From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 27 0:21: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE4037B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6691B43E6A for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:21:03 -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 g8R7L1pk003997; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:21:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:20:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020927.012048.15398823.imp@bsdimp.com> To: attila@hun.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020925000645.C1nI14141@hun.org> References: <20020924205250.GC60957@nagual.pp.ru> <200209242059.NAA26625@windsor.research.att.com> <20020925000645.C1nI14141@hun.org> 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-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020925000645.C1nI14141@hun.org> attila! writes: : However, I do object to GNU's heavy handed removal of a : flag which is in extensive use. I don't have a problem : with the new syntax, but leave the old one intact I keep telling people we should hack sort to only refuse to accept it if the _POSIX_ME_HARDER environment variable is set. FreeBSD has never been a total slave to standards. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message