On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 06:42:17PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >You can disagree all you want, but this is a change from FC4 to FC5:
> >
> >fc4% sort +2 < /var/log/messages | head -1
> >Mar 7 00:27:35 ti63 smartd[2187]: Device: /dev/sda, Temperature changed
> >-2 Celsius to 35 Celsius since last report
> >
> >rawhide% sort +2 < /var/log/messages | head -1
> >sort: open failed: +2: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> This seems unrelated to the man page entry you quoted. Can you find more
> information on this and provide us the content?
I don't mean to be an ass, but do you read before you mouth off? Judging by
the fedora-* list traffic, no. Let's try again:
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.
Sorry, I'm cranky. Now I have to go put a wrapper around coreutils and
log old-style arguments.
Environment variable tests are completely broken. That was already known
in the 1970's ... but I gave up on POSIX when I was a reviewer for the
pthreads drafts ...
Bill
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