Re: [bugs #12235] POSIX/SUS compatibility not existing

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:22:13AM +0000, anonymous wrote:
> 
> Follow-up Comment #2, bugs #12235 (project findutils):
> 
> Looks like problem comes due to old versions of findutils on the
> only linuxes I have for testing (RH9, latest official findutils
> packages).  Sorry for the bug report sounding rude, I was heavily
> annoyed while porting software from linux, and because I did not see
> any answer to the cited thread in bug-findutils, making me believe
> the options are still not available.

Of course, nobody is paying us volunteers to maintain findutils.
Perhaps a more appropriate target for your irritation is whoever you
paid for what you presumably had originally thought was a
POSIX-compliant system.

More tools would be POSIX-compliant if POSIX-compliance test suites
were freely available.  Unfortunately, I don't know of any free ones.
POSIX ocmpliance suites require a great deal of effort to build,
prove, and maintain.  Understandably organisations willing to put in
that amount of effort tend to want to recoup their investment.

Regards,
James.