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bug#15486: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?
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Eric Blake |
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bug#15486: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed? |
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Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:20:55 -0600 |
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On 10/01/2013 08:04 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Glenn Golden <address@hidden> wrote:
>> --
>> (This came up as a side issue when looking into details of bug #15483;
>> it's not directly related, so filing as a separate report.)
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>> There's a FAQ put out by opengroup.org
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>> http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
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>> which remarks (Q10) that "a POSIX.2 standard no longer exists". Should
>> grep.1 [2.14] (which refers to POSIX.2 in several places) be updated to refer
>> instead to "the Shell and Utilties volume of POSIX.1-2008"? Or perhaps just
>> "POSIX.1"?
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> close 15486
> thanks
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> Actually, "POSIX" seems fine, now.
> Thanks for the suggestion. I've made the switch with the attached patch:
You only attached a gnulib submodule patch, rather than the intended one :)
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