LSB and GNU (was Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo)

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jan 3 17:38:27 PST 2002


> Each command should be compared with SuSv2 or POSIX, and if an argument
> or behavior is extraneous, careful thought should be put into leaving it
> in LSB.

Please go and read the LSB mission statement and the original mailing
list discussions first.

> To do otherwise places an unrealistic burden on implementors of embedded
> and otherwise small systems.

Please go and read the old LSB archives. This is a long old discussion

> Does a standard Linux implementation of /bin/cat really require
> supporting --number-nonblank and --squeeze-blank and --show-nonprinting?
> 
Please go and read the old LSB archives. This is a long old discussion

> I humbly urge members and readers to reconsider this course of action. 
> As it stands, LSB is currently not a standards document but really a
> common-practices document.

Guess what, thats what the whole bloody idea is. But if you'd actually
bothered to read before writing you'd have known that.

Alan




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