On 5/15/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Ian Murdock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/12/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:05:38AM -0400, Ian Murdock wrote:
> > > On 5/10/07, Frank Van Der Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > > > > You may continue to be snarky if ls -h became a common solaris
> > > > > invocation, but I doubt your users would be upset at no longer having
> > > > > to multiply by 2 to get K, and to get the size rounded to MB, GB,
> > > > > etc.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about making -h the
> > > > default? I doubt that would be standards compliant..
> > >
> > > As I'll say till I'm blue in the face, I'm as obsessed with
> > > compatibility as anyone here. But I have to ask: What exactly
> > > would break if -h *were* the default behavior?
> >
> > As Joerg pointed out, that'd be POSIX compatibility...
>
> And that would break... what, exactly?
If you do not understand this, please ask Don Cragun who is
Sun's POSIX person.
Sun did validate Solaris for UNIX-03 compatibiltiy. This isw what makes
it easier to move from one OS to another......breaking it is a bad idea.
You still didn't answer my question. In essence, you're saying, "We can't
do this because we can't do this."
-ian
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