file utility POSIX complience

[Baris Simsek]

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?

regards,

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