On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:05 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > 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: Can you draw upon Tim's advice to set the environment variable depending on need (local or system wide) to write up a paragraph or two about this? I'm thinking that you digest this better than I do already, and can offer a draft (straw man) for us to fix and include in the Docs/Beats. We are still adding content over the next day or so for the Web- publication of the release notes. Thanks for the pointer and TIA for the contribution. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Content Services Fedora Documentation Project http://www.redhat.com/docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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