svn commit: r364449 - head/bin/ls

[Gordon Bergling]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:21:47PM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Gordon Bergling <gbe at freebsd.org> wrote
>   in <20200824085223.GA28970 at lion.0xfce3.net>:
> 
> gb> thanks for your feedback. I can only define POSIX.1-200{1,8} or -susv4. So what
> gb> do you think about the following STANDARDS section?
> gb> 
> gb> For the options that are non-existing I could correct them to -2001 and mention
> gb> also -susv4.
> gb> 
> gb> STANDARDS
> gb>      With the exception of options -g, -n and -o, the ls utility conforms to
> gb>      IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”) and Version 4 of the Single UNIX
> gb>      Specification (“SUSv4”).  The options -B, -D, -G, -I, -T, -U, -W, -Z, -b,
> gb>      -h, -w, -y and -, are compatible extensions not defined in IEEE Std
> gb>      1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”).
> 
>  It might be a bit tedious, but just adding -2008 looks good to me
>  like the following:
> 
>  |.St -p1003.1-2001
>  |and
>  |.St -p1003.1-2008 .
> 
>  p1003.1-2004 is a subset of SUSv3 (and -2008 is one of SUSv4), so
>  using p1003.1-YYYY consistently sounds less confusing when describing
>  the conformance within the subsets.
> 
>  Regarding the non-standard extensions, I am not sure what
>  "compatible" means.  Some of them are extensions commonly seen on
>  other BSD-derived OSes, some are available only on FreeBSD, and some
>  have the same names with GNU's counterpart but different meanings.
>  Is just mentioning "...are non-standard extensions" with no
>  specification name sufficient and easier?  I have no strong opinion
>  on that part, but this is just my two cents.
> 
> -- Hiroki

I followed your suggestions and created the following differential for
further discussions.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26210

--Gordon
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