Linda Walsh wrote: ... > GNU needs to be clear their priorities -- maintaining software > freedom, or bowing down to corporate powers... POSIX isn't
While POSIX is in general a very good baseline, no one here conforms blindly. If POSIX is wrong, we'll lobby to change it, or, when that fails, maybe relegate the undesirable required behavior to when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, or even simply ignore it. In fact, over the years, I have deliberately made a few GNU tools contravene some aspects of POSIX-specified behavior that I felt were counterproductive. We try to make the tools as useful as possible, sometimes adding features when we deem them worthwhile. However, we are very much against changing the *default* behavior (behavior that has been that way for over 20 years and that is compatible with all other vendor-supplied rm programs) without a very good reason.
