Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:05:20 +0200
> From: "Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group"
> <austin-group-l@opengroup.org>
> Message-ID: <20210705180520.kgbgk%sch...@schily.net>
>
> | That would be in conflict with long existing practice....
>
> Apparently not in most versions of sort.
If you call NetBSd "most versions"....
it seems that all other sort implementations use a uniform definition
for -S and Netbsd is in conflict with "all other sort implementations", at
least with Solaris, GNU, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
> | If you like to disable -s, better use +s
>
> No, + options don't work in general, and would be even more difficult to
> support in sort because of keeping backward compat with its old key
> specification syntax.
Given that the historic + usage with sort expects a digit past +, I see no
conflict.
> If we need a different option (really need) then we simply use a different
> option (for which we'd simply allow both, the new, and -S).
As mentioned, your proposal for -S is not compatible with most versions of
sort.
Jörg
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