Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-12-01 16:53:02 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: >> severity 340364 normal >> stop >> >> "tail -c 4" is not standards-conformant, so this is not a bug. > > It is standard conformant. Please look at > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/tail.html > > There is a space between -c and the number.
Sorry, I was wrong. It _is_ standards-conformant. What I should have said was: it is ambiguous; different standards prescribe different behavior. I base this on the upstream text that I quoted. Jim Meyering wrote: > As you must know, it's fixed upstream on the trunk. > That change will also be in coreutils-5.94. For the record, can you please clarify this issue? Was the statement in NEWS that I quoted earlier incorrect? What is a correct variant of that statement? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
