On 9/23/19 1:24 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:59:43 -0400
> From: Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org>
> Message-ID: <20190923145943.gx28...@eeg.ccf.org>
>
> | But... there literally *is* a real standard for this.
>
> Hmm, yes, you're right. That suggests that -depth must be a System-V
> invention (POSIX wouldn't have added a spec for an undocumented internal
> operator from BSD...)
It's in SVR2 (1984?), at least, and POSIX-1003.2d11 (1991) has it, without
any mention of where it came from, so I assume POSIX picked it up from the
SVID. The SVR2 page implies that it was added to support cpio.
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