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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.
-;
[RMS] quote (he was on the standards committee - See the
[original quote
| http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html?page=2] in an interview with Federico Biancuzzi)
: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.
+[RMS] quote from
[an interview with Federico Biancuzzi
| http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html?page=2]:
+
+>
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]
.
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.)
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% /
- $ POSIX_ME_HARDER=yes df
- Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
- /dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
- $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=yes df
- Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
- /dev/hda3 37381152 7917280 27564992 23% /
+<verbatim>
+
$ df
+Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
+/dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
+$ POSIX_ME_HARDER=yes df
+Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
+/dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
+$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=yes df
+Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
+/dev/hda3 37381152 7917280 27564992 23% /
+</verbatim>
-But it's still part of the history. :)
+But it's still part of the history. <tt>
:)</tt>
