Hi, Section 2.11, Standards conformance, of coreutils.info is worded ambigously with regards to POSIXLY_CORRECT.
The current text says "[...] define the `POSIXLY_CORRECT' environment variable." I took this to mean that the variable needs to be exported (export POSIXLY_CORRECT), but it needs to be set to a value as well, at least for du(1). This ambiguity can be avoided by writing "[...] define the `POSIXLY_CORRECT' environment variable to a non-null value". Thank you, Konrad Schwarz Siemens AG Corporate Technology Software & Engineering / Architecture CT SE 25 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 80200 München Tel.: +49 (89) 636-53579 Fax: +49 (89) 636-45450 Mobile: +49 (170) 9424351 mailto:konrad.schw...@siemens.com http://www.ct.siemens.com<http://www.ct.siemens.com/> Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Gerhard Cromme; Managing Board: Peter Loescher, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; Wolfgang Dehen, Heinrich Hiesinger, Joe Kaeser, Erich R. Reinhardt, Hermann Requardt, Siegfried Russwurm, Peter Y. Solmssen; Registered offices: Berlin and Munich; Commercial registries: Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 12300, Munich, HRB 6684; WEEE-Reg.-No. DE 23691322