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-[POSIX_ME_HARDER] is an alias for the [POSIXLY_CORRECT] an environment variable that can be used for some programs, particularly those written by people exasperated by some aspect of the [POSIX] standards. See [Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9108281809.AA03552%40mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu]. Despite that page suggesting that df(1) uses [POSIX_ME_HARDER], at least recent versions don't. So it's not a very good alias.
+[POSIX_ME_HARDER] is an alias for the [POSIXLY_CORRECT] an environment variable that can be used for some programs, particularly those written by people exasperated by some aspect of the [POSIX] standards.
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+;[RMS] quote (he was on the standards committee):To have an excuse to say that we still support the spec, if you define the environment variable, POSIX_ME_HARDER was the original way. Then a slightly prudish board member convinced me to change it to POSIXLY_CORRECT which I now think was a mistake. I should have left it as POSIX_ME_HARDER.
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See [Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9108281809.AA03552%40mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu].
+(To put this message in context, there had recently been a coup that resulted in the demise of the Soviet Union.)
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Despite that page suggesting that df(1) uses [POSIX_ME_HARDER], at least recent versions don't. So it's not a very good alias.
$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
