Re: utilities and write errors

2021-07-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On 2021-07-07 00:48:28 +0700, Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > | > Implementor of what? > | Of pwd. > > Who has no idea whether or not buffering is being used. When using stdio, the implementor knows that buffering *may* be used. Thus he needs to call fflush at the

Re: sort -c/C and last-resort sorting

2021-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Robert Elz wrote: > Date:Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:05:20 +0200 > From:"Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group" > > Message-ID: <20210705180520.kgbgk%sch...@schily.net> > > | That would be in conflict with long existing practice > > Apparently not in

Re: utilities and write errors

2021-07-06 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Mon, 5 Jul 2021 10:51:04 +0100 From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: <20210705095104.GA23845@localhost> | As I said before, there is nothing in the standard that requires pwd | to be written in C. No issue with that, | Nor

Re: sort -c/C and last-resort sorting

2021-07-06 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:05:20 +0200 From:"Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: <20210705180520.kgbgk%sch...@schily.net> | That would be in conflict with long existing practice Apparently not in most versions of sort. | If you

Re: sort -c/C and last-resort sorting

2021-07-06 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Joerg Schilling wrote, on 06 Jul 2021: > > "Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" > wrote: > > > > If you like to disable -s, better use +s > > > > That wouldn't be suitable for standardisation as it doesn't follow > > syntax guideline 4. The standard would need to use a different

Re: sort -c/C and last-resort sorting

2021-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group
"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" wrote: > > If you like to disable -s, better use +s > > That wouldn't be suitable for standardisation as it doesn't follow > syntax guideline 4. The standard would need to use a different letter, > maybe -F for "fully sorted", or -l/-L for

Re: sort -c/C and last-resort sorting

2021-07-06 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Joerg Schilling wrote, on 05 Jul 2021: > > "Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group" > wrote: > > > Date:Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:04:59 +0200 > > From:"Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group" > > > > Message-ID: