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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
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	phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? 
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:39:01 -0700
From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> Here's my suggested fix:

> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +/*
> + * Tell GNU sort(1) to implement the obsolete +1 -0 syntax even though
> + * it has been removed from the version of POSIX that the rest of
> + * the system conforms to.
> + */
> +int posix2_version(void) {
> +	return 0;
> +}

Try something like this:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int
posix2_version(void)
{
	if (getenv("POSIX_ME_HARDER") || getenv("POSIXLY_CORRECT"))
		return _POSIX2_VERSION;
	else
		return 0;
}

Cheers,
-Peter
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