From: Danek Duvall <duvall@comfychair.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: POSIX conformance in Solaris
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:12:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050112161252.GA30820@lorien.comfychair.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050112091800.GA4486@sc>
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:18:00AM +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> tail -n 1, even if POSIX, is not portable. I think I've come
> across a system where it was not supported recently (maybe
> Solaris).
Very possible. When POSIX introduces an interface that would break
compatibility with already released Solaris commands, the functionality
gets stuck in /usr/xpg?. So in this case /usr/bin/tail doesn't require (or
even support) -n, while /usr/xpg4/bin/tail supports (but doesn't require)
it.
Danek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-12 1:01 POSIX conformance in coreutils Vin Shelton
2005-01-12 9:18 ` Stephane Chazelas
2005-01-12 16:12 ` Danek Duvall [this message]
2005-01-12 10:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-01-12 10:42 ` Stephane Chazelas
2005-01-12 14:19 ` Vin Shelton
2005-01-12 15:58 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-02-23 16:36 ` Oliver Kiddle
[not found] ` <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
2005-02-23 18:24 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-01-12 16:18 ` Bart Schaefer
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