On 2007-08-21 15:30:17 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > It's not giving a diagnostic because the file doesn't exist, it's > giving a diagnostic because it can't even tell whether the file > exists (that is, you'll get the same error whether the file is there > or not). POSIX doesn't say "-c do not print any diagnostic messages > for this file at all", so I think that coreutils is behaving > correctly.
There are clearly different interpretations. I've asked the question on the austin-group list. Concerning the documentation, I don't understand why you don't want to add something like "Do not write any diagnostic messages concerning this condition." as POSIX does. Not writing a diagnostic message when the considered file doesn't exist is certainly not a Unix fundamental, and I'd say this is even an exception (and that's why POSIX mentions it). -- 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 / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
