Re: Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

[Paul Eggert]

"Peter D." <address@hidden> writes:

> I am sufficiently ignorant of POSIX that df could be in completely compliant 
> and I would not know.  

It does conform, since you're in an en_US.UTF-8 locale, not the POSIX
locale.  Also, POSIX reserves environment variables like BLOCK_SIZE to
the implementation; portable POSIX applications are not allowed to set
them.

That being said, it might make sense for -P to ignore BLOCK_SIZE and
the like.  Doing this wouldn't be 100% trivial, though; someone will
have to think about it.