Coreutils POSIX changes not documented in release notes

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 06:42:17PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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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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>I don't mean to be an ass, but do you read before you mouth off?  Judging by
>the fedora-* list traffic, no. 
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It would be help to be more courteous than that. Not sure what the 
reference on fedora mailing list traffic is all about. Feel free to mail 
me offlist about that.

> Let's try again:
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>       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.
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>Sorry, I'm cranky.  Now I have to go put a wrapper around coreutils and
>log old-style arguments.
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The exact same text appears in the earlier Fedora Core  versions info 
manuals. I am just puzzled at what has changed between FC4 and rawhide 
versions now.

-- 
Rahul