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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2016-12-27 15:02:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2016-12-27 15:03:05 -0800 |
| commit | ed77fb40cae45dda078510841326e1e5ab1dd55f (patch) | |
| tree | 8cba10e0a29b71a77b23891a4b522908b4875a0f /README | |
| parent | e17e5f40b81447a2af65b0e64a3295d5e2e86753 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-ed77fb40cae45dda078510841326e1e5ab1dd55f.tar.xz | |
doc: Update POSIX part of README (Bug#25259)
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@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ If you obtained this file as part of a "git clone", then see the README-hacking file. If this file came to you as part of a tar archive, then see the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. -These programs are intended to conform to POSIX (with BSD and other -extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. By default they conform -to older POSIX (1003.2-1992), and therefore support obsolete usages -like "head -10" and "chown owner.group file". This default is -overridden at build-time by the value of <unistd.h>'s _POSIX2_VERSION -macro, and this in turn can be overridden at runtime as described in +Like the rest of the GNU system, these programs mostly conform to +POSIX, with BSD and other extensions. For closer conformance, or +conformance to a particular POSIX version, set the POSIXLY_CORRECT +and the _POSIX2_VERSION environment variables, as described in the documentation under "Standards conformance". The ls, dir, and vdir commands are all separate executables instead of |