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Date:      Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:46:27 +0200
From:      Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r204803 - head/usr.bin/uniq
Message-ID:  <20100307104626.GA9015@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <201003061921.o26JLv36014114@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201003061921.o26JLv36014114@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 2010-03-06, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>   
>   3) Enforce the implied LINE_MAX limit (from POSIX definition of "text file"
>   and POSIX uniq(1) description).

Although a file with lines longer than LINE_MAX isn't a text file by
POSIX definition I don't think that POSIX requires uniq(1) to reject
non-POSIX text files. Thus I would like to keep the support for longer
lines.

-- 
Jaakko



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