From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 13:48:16 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 AD9E137B404; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977D543E65; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8OKmCnd061019; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:48:12 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8OKmBlZ061018; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:48:11 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:48:10 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Peter Wemm Cc: Tim Robbins , Steve Kargl , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Message-ID: <20020924204809.GA60957@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20020923122935.A6108@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Oh man, this is going to suck. There are thousands and thousands of third > party scripts that use +n syntax. > > I am most unhappy with this change. :-( It will be possible to have both variants, but +N is valid filename per POSIX, so obsoleted syntax can't be supported. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message