From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 14: 3:48 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 98B0C37B404 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-green.research.att.com (mail-green.research.att.com [135.207.30.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B1643E86 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenner@research.att.com) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-green.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE2A1E067; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:03:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24518; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:03:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id OAA26698; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209242103.OAA26698@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <3D90CFD9.E0FB776A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:03:44 -0700 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.5a/makemail 2.9d 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 >Until "sh", "make", "tar", and so on also drop behaviours that are >not specified by POSIX, it's really silly to make "sort" drop them. It's not that the +x/-y argument syntax is not specified - it's that it's specifically disallowed. (I disagree with that restriction, but let's at least have the right argument.) Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message