Re: utilities and write errors

2021-07-04 Thread Harald van Dijk via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On 04/07/2021 21:54, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:26:25 +0100 From:Harald van Dijk Message-ID: <40fc0b0c-364f-8ff8-0613-a76c887d4...@gigawatt.nl> | P.S.: The fact that the underlying file descriptor of standard output is | fd 1 rather than

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

2021-07-04 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Sun, 4 Jul 2021 10:31:06 +0100 From:Stephane Chazelas Message-ID: <20210704093106.2ce2cyg77f2nm...@chazelas.org> | That would make is non-compliant then. s/is/it/ ... and yes, so? | SUS> When there are multiple key fields, later keys shall be There was

Re: utilities and write errors

2021-07-04 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:26:25 +0100 From:Harald van Dijk Message-ID: <40fc0b0c-364f-8ff8-0613-a76c887d4...@gigawatt.nl> | I think the definition of "write", in Base Definitions, tries to say so, To a degree, yes, but I don't think that actually adds anything to

Re: utilities and write errors

2021-07-04 Thread Harald van Dijk via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On 04/07/2021 18:32, Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: Date:Thu, 1 Jul 2021 11:45:40 +0100 From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: <20210701104540.GA4023@localhost> | it just requires pwd to write the

Re: utilities and write errors

2021-07-04 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Thu, 1 Jul 2021 11:45:40 +0100 From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: <20210701104540.GA4023@localhost> | Because it is a precondition of this discussion. I.e. what we are | debating is what is the required behaviour if pwd

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

2021-07-04 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2021-07-04 15:47:55 +0700, Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group: [...] > which is the way it should be - if one has taken the trouble to specify > what parts of the record are the keys for sorting (and -u comparisons) > then sort should not be gratuitously adding more - that it used to

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

2021-07-04 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2021-07-04 15:47:55 +0700, Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group: > Date:Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:41:50 +0100 > From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" > > Message-ID: <20210702134150.GB16587@localhost> > > | I've always assumed that the

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

2021-07-04 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:41:50 +0100 From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: <20210702134150.GB16587@localhost> | I've always assumed that the intention for -c is to answer the | question "if I ran this command without -c would the

Re: pax -s option and symlink targets

2021-07-04 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2021-07-04 07:21:08 +0100, Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group: [...] > Note that the equivalent --transform in the GNU implementation > of tar lets you specify whether to apply the transformation to > {sym,hard}links or not with flags. [...] Actually, libarchive's bsdtar

Re: pax -s option and symlink targets

2021-07-04 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2021-07-03 18:43:40 -0700, Michael Forney via austin-group-l at The Open Group: [...] > I'm working on an implementation of the pax tool, and am looking > for some clarification of how (if at all) the -s option should > interact with symlink targets. [...] See also: