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Re: -10 does not give any warning!


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: -10 does not give any warning!
Date: 14 Jan 2004 09:47:58 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

Matthias Kopfermann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:39:20AM -0800, You wrote:
> > Hmm, I get a response when I use the old style; see below.
> > 
> > $ env | grep POSIX2
> > _POSIX2_VERSION=200112
> > $ nice --version | head -n 1
> > nice (GNU coreutils) 5.1.0
> 
> nice (GNU coreutils) 5.0
> > $ nice -10 echo hello
> > nice: invalid option -- 1
> i only get hello here and no warning so i wrote an email to you!

Most likely this is because you haven't set _POSIX2_VERSION in your
environment.  Try setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112, so that the 'env'
command works as shown above.




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