Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes: > > Nice thought. But it would violate POSIX if done by default > > POSIX says you can't warn users about potential problems?
One person's bug is another person's feature. The entire reason that LC_COLLATE exists is because some people INTENTIONALLY want to sort files in other than the C locale order, when they know what they are doing. POSIX pretty much states that if an application prints a message to stderr, it should exit with non-zero status, unless explicitly mentioned otherwise in the POSIX requirements for that application. And since sort doesn't know whether the user meant to use that LC_COLLATE setting, it would have to exit with 0 status, in spite of any warnings, for the case of the user that meant that sort order. Hence, there is no way to print a warning, be successful, and still comply with POSIX all at the same time. True, we could key off of POSIXLY_CORRECT, but I'd rather minimize the (ab)use of that environment variable. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
