2006-06-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+ * NEWS: Support obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" even when
+ conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure extension to
+ POSIX. Problem reported by Christian in:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00220.html
+ * src/sort.c (main): Implement this.
+
* src/system.h (CLOSEDIR): Remove. All uses changed to closedir.
Autoconf 2.60 says this stuff was obsolete.
sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than
silently ignoring one of them.
+ sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" when conforming
+ to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure extension to POSIX.
+ However, "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1".
+
stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0:
FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release
containing this change was 5.92.