Re: tail -c fails (coreutils 5.92)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-10-31 23:25:10 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Thanks for the report.  This works for me on my GNU/Linux machine.  I
> am guessing that configure is somehow not configuring the getopt
> routine properly.  It may be deducing that getopt_long is available
> and functional when it is not.

No, this is due to the fact I have _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 to be able
to use forms like "head -5".

Also, the following code (considering a boolean as an integer value)
is at least dirty if not buggy:

  bool obsolete_option;
[...]
  obsolete_option = parse_obsolete_option (argc, argv, &n_units);
  argc -= obsolete_option;
  argv += obsolete_option;

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