From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 24 14:40:24 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8F237B401; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marlborough.cnchost.com (marlborough.concentric.net [207.155.248.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA32943E6A; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by marlborough.cnchost.com id RAA14789; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:40:09 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <200209242140.RAA14789@marlborough.cnchost.com> To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Poul-Henning Kamp , Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:20:09 PDT." <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:40:09 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Turn off the silly feature in sort(1) the first place. Let people request > it by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 if they want to sort a filename that > begins with a +. Or, use 'sort ./+file' like they would already have to > do for just about every other unix OS on the planet. Not that you need support but I have to chime up and say I agree entirely. Backward compatibility trumps standard compliance. Standards fundamentalism may be good for one's soul but bad in real life -- too many innocent programs die:-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message