Coreutils POSIX changes not documented in release notes

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:25:25PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>Just discovered this.
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>>>IMHO, this massive breakage needs to be documented (in allcaps) in the
>>>FC5 Release notes:
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>>Completely disagree. This is a long standing change and not specific to 
>>Fedora Core 5 at all. Release notes is about major differences between 
>>releases and shouldnt be extended to provide all kinds of general 
>>information.
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>You can disagree all you want, but this is a change from FC4 to FC5:
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>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
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>rawhide% sort +2 < /var/log/messages | head -1
>sort: open failed: +2: No such file or directory
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This seems unrelated to the man page entry you quoted. Can you find more 
information on this and provide us the content?


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Rahul