* Michael Stone said: > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:19:41AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > The thing is even POSIX allows this behaviour if I read Sven's message > > correctly. The options are strictly implementation defined, so that means > > you cannot rely on them in a portable script. > > What's your point? Who cares if people can rely on them for a portable > script--they just want the behavior they had last week. We're building a > distribution, not an ivory tower. Exactly. I don't give a damn whether my script will work on Solaris, Ultrix, Someix - I want it to work on a GNU system. It did, it doesn't now. marek
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