L. A. Walsh wrote:
I don't think the above is correct w/r/t "rm" with its previous functionality removed to enforce compliance with the latest POSIX (not the 1992 POSIX).
Yes, that part of README is obsolete. I installed the attached to fix that and am closing this bug report. Although my impression is that you also want 'rm' to be changed, that would be a topic for a different bug report.
>From 6a5f2e9940090b61bdc7c2b0600edc25579889f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:02:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Update POSIX part of README (Bug#25259) --- README | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 1dea908..3910255 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ If you obtained this file as part of a "git clone", then see the README-hacking file. If this file came to you as part of a tar archive, then see the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. -These programs are intended to conform to POSIX (with BSD and other -extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. By default they conform -to older POSIX (1003.2-1992), and therefore support obsolete usages -like "head -10" and "chown owner.group file". This default is -overridden at build-time by the value of <unistd.h>'s _POSIX2_VERSION -macro, and this in turn can be overridden at runtime as described in +Like the rest of the GNU system, these programs mostly conform to +POSIX, with BSD and other extensions. For closer conformance, or +conformance to a particular POSIX version, set the POSIXLY_CORRECT +and the _POSIX2_VERSION environment variables, as described in the documentation under "Standards conformance". The ls, dir, and vdir commands are all separate executables instead of -- 2.7.4
