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Re: Coreutils head and tail problems

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
Cc: Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:16:29 -0700
Subject: Re: Coreutils head and tail problems
References: <034301c36bce$3ff63180$0101000a@office><87oeycs962.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com><20030826093419.B21676@synopsys.com><87d6ess77v.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com><20030826094313.A21945@synopsys.com>

Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

> Another issue is that if Posix has deprecated "head -1", eventually other
> tools providers will stop supporting it, so autoconf will have to adapt.
> It might turn out that the only portable approach will be to do a
> configure-time test.

Proprietary UNIX vendors are unlikely to drop "head -1" simply because
their customers insist on perfect backward compatibility.  And I hope
the free BSD crowd is more sensible than to follow POSIX off this
particular cliff.

zw

References:
- Coreutils head and tail problems
  - From: Andrew Walrond
- Re: Coreutils head and tail problems
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: Coreutils head and tail problems
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: Coreutils head and tail problems
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: Coreutils head and tail problems
  - From: Joe Buck

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