On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 08:53:56PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 10/19/14 18:13, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I imported the first one, but applied the second as a patch because new
> >> commands go in the "pending" directory so I don't lose track of what
> >> I've fully reviewed yet.
> >>
> >> On 10/17/14 22:01, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >>> nsenter: A tool to use setns(2)
> >>
> >> I don't have this command on my host system, and it's not even in the
> >> python "install this package if you want this command" thing.
> > 
> > It's in util-linux.  I bet you're using Ubuntu or Debian :)  Except
> > for very new Debians (IIRC), they're both quite a few years behind on
> > util-linux updates.
> 
> Possibly I should have a third directory for entries where the standard
> is the Linux man page maintained by Michael Kerrisk:
> 
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/nsenter.1.html
> 
> That said, there isn't a good way to snapshot a version of that, or
> point to a specific release. With posix I could still point to the 2001
> spec after 2008 came out. (When the 2013 spec went up they replaced the
> 2008 pages in situ, which is obnoxious, but _mostly_ it didn't change.
> Still, I'd probably be referring to it as posix-2013 and not still using
> my old local 2008 snapshot if they _hadn't_ done that. The easy way to
> get me to reject an upgrade is to try to force it down my throat...)

POSIX 2004 and 2013 are "technical corrigenda": in other words, they
only fix wording and correct contradictions.
No requirements are added, unless they were implicit in previous versions;
this is why they haven't forbidden the C utf8 locale yet.

It corresponds to point releases of an LTS.

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham
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