On Monday 26 February 2007 19:13, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Peter D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am sufficiently ignorant of POSIX that df could be in completely > > compliant and I would not know. > > It does conform, since you're in an en_US.UTF-8 locale, not the POSIX > locale. Also, POSIX reserves environment variables like BLOCK_SIZE to > the implementation; portable POSIX applications are not allowed to set > them. > > That being said, it might make sense for -P to ignore BLOCK_SIZE and > the like. Doing this wouldn't be 100% trivial, though; someone will > have to think about it.
The man page says that "-P" equals "--portability" which equals POSIX and you say POSIX allows commas (and other regional thousands separators) therefore there is no bug in "df". It is a pity that "--portability" can produce outputs that will surprise programmers - unless you want to break the link between "--portability" and POSIX. -- sig goes here... Peter D. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
