On 2006-03-05 12:39:04 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006-03-02 14:18:41 -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > >> - tail -c 3 works again (Closes: #340364) > > > > It doesn't: > ... > > It does -- at least for almost everyone else :-) > > You must have _POSIX2_VERSION set in your environment.
_POSIX2_VERSION isn't set, and this is the default. dixsept:~> env | grep POSIX LANG=POSIX dixsept:~> /usr/bin/tail -c 3 < /dev/null /usr/bin/tail: cannot open `3' for reading: No such file or directory zsh: exit 1 /usr/bin/tail -c 3 < /dev/null dixsept:~> env -u -- /usr/bin/tail -c 3 < /dev/null /usr/bin/tail: cannot open `3' for reading: No such file or directory zsh: exit 1 env -u -- /usr/bin/tail -c 3 < /dev/null So, for almost everyone, it doesn't work. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
