Eric Blake writes: > > I am not blowing off this bug report - I agree with you that we need > better documentation. However, I don't have the resources to do all the
It's not just a documentation problem. The behavior in older versions of coreutils was compatible with other members of the unix family; the current version is not. That's a regression and should be recognized as such, even if no version of POSIX ever specified the behavior. > legwork myself (in particular, access to the POSIX 1992 standard would > be a big help), so in open source fashion, I'm asking for help. And > since it seems to be your itch, the best you can do is scratch it by > providing that help, rather than criticizing the fact that we are trying > to spread the work load. I didn't send the initial bug report, but it did catch my interest. "sort +1" is for me a finger-macro that I'll never stop using no matter how many people declare it obsolete. "sort +1 -2" not so much. The hunt for old POSIX versions is a dead end. Instead, I'll try to find exactly when this stopped working. Maybe it was an unintended side effect of a change elsewhere. -- Alan Curry
