Eric Blake wrote: > 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.
As a related issue, why do we indicate in the man page and FAQ to explicitly set the order use LC_ALL rather than LC_COLLATE ? I was just using that as a quick example of heuristics one might be able to use to determine if a user was being explicit or not. > 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. So one can't print warning messages, hmm. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
