Re: POSIX misunderstanding

[Paul Eggert]

Albert Cahalan <address@hidden> writes:

>> There's no rush.  Let's wait until the standard is formally changed or
>> corrected, as I imagine it will be.
>
> There is a rush.

Not really.  The code has had its current form since February 2002.
So any problem has been out in the field for 2.5 years, and portable
applications therefore have to deal with this compatibility issue
anyway, regardless of whether the behavior is changed now or a month
from now.

I've been unavailable for a while and haven't had time to review all
the developments in my absence, much less construct a response.
However, my quick reaction is that I expect I'll have to file one or
two more interpretation requests and await some responses to clear up
the current mess.  In the meantime there's no need to rush into
changing the behavior of coreutils.