bug#78910: tail does not support -r added by POSIX.1-2024

2025-07-01 Thread Eric Blake via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 07:07:45PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 6/28/25 00:21, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > I wouldn't be rushing to implement it TBH. > > Furthermore, -r clashes with the existing -f,--follow ... hence it's even more > surprising that POSIX does not specify what should happen f

bug#78910: tail does not support -r added by POSIX.1-2024

2025-07-01 Thread Eric Blake via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 02:28:48PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 08:51:10AM -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > > > > > > > > [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/tail.html > > > > > > tail -r comes from the BSDs. > > > Also the BSDs don't have tac(1) which o

bug#78910: tail does not support -r added by POSIX.1-2024

2025-07-01 Thread Eric Blake via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 08:51:10AM -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > > > > > > [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/tail.html > > > > tail -r comes from the BSDs. > > Also the BSDs don't have tac(1) which overlaps in functionality quite a bit. > > I'm a bit surprised -r was add

bug#76876: logname output is often wrong when linked with glibc

2025-03-19 Thread Eric Blake via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 06:24:45AM +0100, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > I wrote: > > Thus, on Linux systems, a correct implementation of getlogin() can not > > distinguish different users with the same uid (with reasonable effort). > > This applies to both glibc and the new c