On 20 Nov 2013, at 21:40, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD have this option in tr. So, this actually >>>>> improves portability. >>> >>> It's just spreading the disease. portable means it works everywhere. >>> Increasing the number of people who can write nonportable code is not >>> the same as increasing portability. >> >> How many others have to adopt it before it's considered portable, then? > > It is portable when all of them have it. Since you can't fix the past, > we must be very conservative in our approach. In this case `portable' simply means `unavailable'. And that's good. :) DragonFly has it solely because of the shared FreeBSD history, not because it's being used a lot. >> It's possible, as mentioned elsewhere, that simply making tr be >> unbuffered by default is the better move, and ignore -u for >> compatibility with FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD. How will that make things better?
