On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:21:06AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
Stlll, Pádraig gave a reasonable summary of why the change was made,
despite its incompatibility with previous behavior. (One thing I'd add
is that the FreeBSD behavior is inherently less race-prone.) It seemed
like a good idea at
On 2023-12-15 10:49, Michael Stone wrote:
There's no compelling reason to force this change
Well, certainly nobody compelled us at gunpoint
Stlll, Pádraig gave a reasonable summary of why the change was made,
despite its incompatibility with previous behavior. (One thing I'd add
is that
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 06:33:00PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Advantages of leaving as is:
We get consistency of "noclobber" behavior across systems / shells.
You don't, unless you ignore the coreutils/linux installed base
entirely. Essentially the current situation is that -n shouldn't be
On 15/12/2023 15:56, Michael Stone wrote:
I tend to think this was a serious mistake: it breaks the behavior of
existing scripts with no deprecation period. A stated advantage is
better compatibility with freebsd, but I don't understand why that is
more desirable than compatibility with all
I tend to think this was a serious mistake: it breaks the behavior of
existing scripts with no deprecation period. A stated advantage is
better compatibility with freebsd, but I don't understand why that is
more desirable than compatibility with all deployed gnu/linux systems? I
also don't
