From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268716AbUILNX4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:23:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268719AbUILNX4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:23:56 -0400 Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.45]:36554 "EHLO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268716AbUILNXz (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:23:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:24:22 +0200 From: Gunnar Ritter Organization: Privat. To: Chris Siebenmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <41446A26.nailNA1I8439@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> References: <04Sep10.164541edt.6571@ugw.utcc.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <04Sep10.164541edt.6571@ugw.utcc.utoronto.ca> User-Agent: nail 11.7pre 9/10/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Siebenmann wrote: > Note that 'cp' is already not POSIX compliant on most Linux systems, > thanks to GNU libc: 'cp foo -X' ought to work under the POSIX rules I've > seen, but most Linux systems will have cp helpfully interpret the '-X' > as a switch (and because it's a bad switch, explode). Evidently strict > POSIX compatability is not very high on people's priority lists. This issue is currently discussed on the Austin Group list, but in contrast to your assumption, there are efforts to get both sides closer together here, cf. . > Thus I would expect that the GNU fileutils people would be reasonably > happy to make cp copy additional file streams and the like by default if > they actually caught on in Linux. It is clearly preferred to have such things as extensions that do not violate the standard. Gunnar