Re: [tiemu-devel] some NetBSD patches

[Kevin K. <kev...@ch...>]

On Monday 02 April 2007, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Since POSIX doesn't mention an `-i' option to sed this clearly is not
> a missing switch...

If the goal is to support only the strict minimum of switches to be POSIX 
compliant, no. If the goal is to support the switches real-world shell 
scripts use, it is. For example, FreeBSD has supported this switch since 
2002, GNU sed since 2001.

On the other hand, I just checked and even the Linux Standards Base does not 
define this switch, which surprised me, because they usually document GNU 
extensions.

But it's pointless to argue this here anyway, you're not the NetBSD sed 
maintainer, are you? ;-)

        Kevin Kofler