(for some context for people not reading the busybox list) Austin Group Issue Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote in <x3e7zlm0onkfntn4vbxhicqdemvwslvvux0ets9...@www.austingroupbugs.net>: |A NOTE has been added to this issue. .. |https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1927 .. | (0007212) eblake (manager) - 2025-06-26 15:45 | https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1927#c7212 ... |The busybox maintainers chimed in on a thread starting here:
I am not a busybox maintainer (the busybox maintainer is very busy and has not responded to the thread yet). ... |Among the quotes that stand out to me: | |Steffen Nurpmeso: "And what the *standard* would need, much more than \ |that, and |in my opinion, is flock(1) (after we gained timeout(1))." More in line with the topic i noted that the tool is nowhere i am living on (except Alpine Linux via moreutils that i do not have installed), but [.] FreeBSD had it, and one can still get the manual via web, but it was removed in the tree -- funny: added in 7202e5e8f6e3f0d364dfd30fd8df5a4b8e076169 (2017-12-05) removed in fbc88a6f35671bd37d0a4ed68c0bb0687c364c21 (2017-12-06) I dimly remembered some turmoil on the list when i saw the commits, i have not looked in the archives, but i *think* it was an undiscussed addition causing sponge head compressions, so to say. I think Eitan Adler .. let me look .. ah no, he did some commits later on, until 2020 even. But this is what van Dijk refers to below when he says |Harald van Dijk: |"I am seeing a difference between the moreutils implementation and that |removed FreeBSD implementation. The proposed wording, taken from ... --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |During summer's humble, here's David Leonard's grumble | |The black bear, The black bear, |blithely holds his own holds himself at leisure |beating it, up and down tossing over his ups and downs with pleasure | |Farewell, dear collar bear
