On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 01:20:48AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 11:45:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> we're still left with the question of why > >> Solaris' "nm" doesn't support the POSIX-required options. > > > In POSIX, -g and -u are mutually exclusive. Solaris ignores all but the > > first > > of these in a command: > > I've just re-read the POSIX spec for "nm", and I do not see anything there > that would support that interpretation. Still, we can try it without -g > and see what else breaks.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/nm.html says: nm [-APv] [-g|-u] [-t format] file... If the options weren't mutually-exclusive, it would say: nm [-APvgu] [-t format] file...