Summary: | Packages incompatible with coreutils-5.93 | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Mike Green <mikey> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | SpanKY <vapier> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | Tracker |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2005.1 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/35382 | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Mike Green
2006-01-26 21:17:07 UTC
i'm pretty sure i was wrong about this ... in previous versions, using `head -#` generated a warning and/or refused to work but with coreutils-5.93, it's working fine w/out a warning ... the code must have been refactored or something ... if anyone cares to look into that, it'd be good ... I saw a note in the NEWS file about this: * Major changes in release 5.90 (2005-09-29) [unstable] ** Bring back support for `head -NUM', `tail -NUM', etc. even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. The following changes apply only when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001; there is no effect when conforming to older POSIX versions. I assumed I misread it when I saw your -dev mail and this bug. But perhaps I understood it right the first time: head -1 (etc) is OK :) |