On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:07:07PM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > The GNU utilities normally conform to the version of POSIX that is > standard for your system. To cause them to conform to a different > version of POSIX, define the `_POSIX2_VERSION' environment variable to > a value of the form YYYYMM specifying the year and month the standard > was adopted. Two values are currently supported for `_POSIX2_VERSION': > `199209' stands for POSIX 1003.2-1992, and `200112' stands for POSIX > 1003.1-2001. For example, if you have a newer system but are running > software that assumes an older version of POSIX and uses `sort +1' or > `tail +10', you can work around any compatibility problems by setting > `_POSIX2_VERSION=199209' in your environment. > > I don't see anything about it here: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats > > I was all excited about upgrading some servers to FC5, and this stops > that upgrade cold until every one of hundreds of locally written scripts, > some two decades old, are audited and "fixed." Or just set that environment variable in your environment system-wide. Tim. */
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