Coreutils head and tail problems

[Zack Weinberg]

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