On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>
> > I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember what that environment > > variable *used* to be called before political correctness became > > important. > > There are so many layers in that observation that I'm lost. > > Was posixly-correct a purposeful pun on politically correct, and I've > missed it all these decades? > > Or was it named something else earlier than that, which wasn't itself > politically correct? I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a kerfluffle regarding whether /bin/du should use units of 1,000 or 1024. http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html
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