[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RELEASE] Pre4: 24th/25th April

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:13:04PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:59:28PM +0200, Anders Rune Jensen wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this has been submitted before, but the syntax for
> > specifying the amount of lines to list in head and tail has been changed
> > in the latest version of coreutils. Gentoo uses the attached patch for
> > their ebuild, it should be backwards compatible with older versions of
> > coreutils also.
> 
> This has been sent before (actually committed once) and REJECTED! The
> person who did it got a lot of cola too. FSF does not have the
> authority to redefine unix. Many old unices do not support -n, and
> both forms (-n 1 and -1) are supported in posix.

The latest revision of POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, also ISO/IEC
9945:2003, also Single UNIX Specification version 3) supports only -n 1:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/tail.html

Just FYI.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
F U cn rd dis U mst uz Unix.
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