On 1/9/24 12:05, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote in
<202401091627.409grci0028...@gitrepo.freebsd.org>:
|The branch main has been updated by des:
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|URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=c2356a440db91c106867d45c94b\
|3d6d7bc0e50f0
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|commit c2356a440db91c106867d45c94b3d6d7bc0e50f0
|Author: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org>
|AuthorDate: 2024-01-09 14:09:41 +0000
|Commit: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org>
|CommitDate: 2024-01-09 16:27:15 +0000
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| asa: Rewrite to fix line termination issue.
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| The standard is somewhat unclear, but on the balance, I believe \
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| - Second, it unconditionally emits a newline at the end of the output
| for non-empty input, even if the input did not end with a newline.
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I want to point out that POSIX only knows about text files which
end with a LF newline. Otherwise it is not a text file. (I think
Stallman and emacs joke on this by allowing something else, iirc
from before Y2K when i shortly used it, and, funnily, from some
thread on another ML just last week or so, where it was claimed
that this could have roots in emacse not rooting in UNIX.)
It notably defines a text file as zero or more lines, and doesn't say
anything about incomplete lines -- just that none of the lines contain
NUL characters. One can conclude without further information that a
trailing LF is not at all required in any circumstance, it's just an
incomplete line.
