Le Dim 4 Juin 2006 13:36, Michael Stone a écrit : > On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:30:34PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >The way I see it, as long as upstream and 3rd-party software > >developers are in the position GCC is in - and GCC continues to > >support such old systems because our users demand it, not because we > >want to - the constraints those old systems place on our shell > >scripting *are* your problem. > > The bottom line is that the functionality does exist, there is a way > to use it, and you choose not to do so. I don't think it is > reasonable to expect that unix froze 15 years ago and can never > change. If you make a decision that something has to work on a bunch > of obsolete platforms, you're going to have to go through gyrations > to make it happen. If your instructions can't say "put /usr/xpg4/bin > at the front of the path", that's your choice--but don't expect it to > constrain the rest of the world. The reason you're in that situation > is that sun decided more than decade ago that a transition was too > hard. I wonder if they thought at the time that they'd be frozen in > place for this long.
what is the point of not supporting tail +n syntax, does it breaks anything ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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