Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The 'tail -1' behavior change has been around for a couple of years
> anyway: it predates coreutils 4.5.1, the first version of coreutils
> proper.  It didn't become much of an issue, though, until systems
> appeared that claimed conformance to the 2001 POSIX standard.  This
> started happening a few months ago.

This is unclear to me.  It sounds like what you mean is that the
*spec* change predates 4.5.1, but the actually-exhibited *behavior*
change is only a few months old.  Is that right?


paul


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