Hi,
I was looking for the non-POSIX FreeBSD utilities from here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~schweikh/posix-utilities.html#file
He talks about -d -h and -M options currently not available.
And i did a quick source to find original related document of POSIX. I
met following PDFs may be interesting:
http://www.opengroup.org/rtforum/uploads/40/7319/POSIX_and_Linux_Application_Compatibility_v0.92_released_22_April_05.pdf
9th page and 6th item says that:
The Linux file utility is not required to support the M, h, d, and
the i options. The portable application shall not use these options.
Is there a contradiction between them?
I wonder that what jobs these options should perform? And is there any
developer currently working on it?
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