On 03/08/2025 19:08, Collin Funk wrote:
Hi Pádraig,
Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes:
I'd say any option apart from -n implicitly disables strict POSIX conformance,
since those options are not in POSIX at all.
It seems like this was my misunderstanding. I thought non-POSIX options
couldn't change:
If file does not name a symbolic link, readlink shall write a
diagnostic message to standard error and exit with non-zero status.
But I like the behavior you and Dmitry suggest better.
So all I'd do is enable -v if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. There is the
argument for defaulting to -v, but I see FreeBSD does not output an
error either if file is not a symlink, so it's probably best to only
enable -v if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
In NEWS this should be under "Changes in behavior" rather than "New Features".
Done, v2 attached.
Looks good.
thanks!
Padraig
