Bug 128061

Summary:	tail -c +<number> doesn't work
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	All
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Jan Beulich 2005-10-13 12:10:50 UTC

Without setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 (or higher) in the environment, this
syntax working in all (tested) previous SL and SLES versions is no longer
accepted (+<number> is considered a file name).
The reason for this is that the coreutils package gets configured with a default
Posix version of 199209, making the utility apply obsolete command line parsing
rules.
According to a comment from schwab@suse.de this is to keep historical scripts
happy, but I seriously doubt that such compatibility should come at the price of
breaking current standards.

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2005-10-13 12:29:50 UTC

Fixed.