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Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?

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From: Glenn Golden <gdg <at> zplane.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:46:31 -0600

--
(This came up as a side issue when looking into details of bug #15483;
it's not directly related, so filing as a separate report.)

There's a FAQ put out by opengroup.org

    http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html

which remarks (Q10) that "a POSIX.2 standard no longer exists".  Should 
grep.1 [2.14] (which refers to POSIX.2 in several places) be updated to refer
instead to "the Shell and Utilties volume of POSIX.1-2008"? Or perhaps just
"POSIX.1"?

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: gdg <at> zplane.com
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 15486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15486: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:04:41 -0700

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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Glenn Golden <gdg <at> zplane.com> wrote:
> --
> (This came up as a side issue when looking into details of bug #15483;
> it's not directly related, so filing as a separate report.)
>
> There's a FAQ put out by opengroup.org
>
>     http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
>
> which remarks (Q10) that "a POSIX.2 standard no longer exists".  Should
> grep.1 [2.14] (which refers to POSIX.2 in several places) be updated to refer
> instead to "the Shell and Utilties volume of POSIX.1-2008"? Or perhaps just
> "POSIX.1"?

close 15486
thanks

Actually, "POSIX" seems fine, now.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've made the switch with the attached patch:

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Message #11 received at 15486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: gdg <at> zplane.com, 15486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15486: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:20:55 -0600

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On 10/01/2013 08:04 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Glenn Golden <gdg <at> zplane.com> wrote:
>> --
>> (This came up as a side issue when looking into details of bug #15483;
>> it's not directly related, so filing as a separate report.)
>>
>> There's a FAQ put out by opengroup.org
>>
>>     http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
>>
>> which remarks (Q10) that "a POSIX.2 standard no longer exists".  Should
>> grep.1 [2.14] (which refers to POSIX.2 in several places) be updated to refer
>> instead to "the Shell and Utilties volume of POSIX.1-2008"? Or perhaps just
>> "POSIX.1"?
> 
> close 15486
> thanks
> 
> Actually, "POSIX" seems fine, now.
> Thanks for the suggestion. I've made the switch with the attached patch:

You only attached a gnulib submodule patch, rather than the intended one :)

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Message #14 received at 15486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: gdg <gdg <at> zplane.com>, 15486 <15486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#15486: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:24:47 -0700

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Thanks, Eric.
Here's the intended patch:

FTR, I think it was induced by this command:

   git grep -l 'POSIX.[12]'| xargs perl -pi -e 's/POSIX\.[12]/POSIX/'

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