Can anyone point me to the mailing list discussion where this originally was decided?
There are legion of coreutils users out there who are dumbfounded and who detest this change; I see that Debian has reverted it. However, I (and Debian) could be wrong. I'd like to see the original discussion which will hopefully point to the well-founded reasoning for its implementation (eg, POSIX requires it, a tremendous clamour from the user community, what have you). I have searched in the mailing list but not found the original point of the decision; I don't have the proper expression foo to return it... -- -Mike Schwager
