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doc: Update POSIX part of README (Bug#25259)

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Paul Eggert
2016-12-27 15:02:34 -08:00
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@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ If you obtained this file as part of a "git clone", then see the
README-hacking file. If this file came to you as part of a tar archive,
then see the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
These programs are intended to conform to POSIX (with BSD and other
extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. By default they conform
to older POSIX (1003.2-1992), and therefore support obsolete usages
like "head -10" and "chown owner.group file". This default is
overridden at build-time by the value of <unistd.h>'s _POSIX2_VERSION
macro, and this in turn can be overridden at runtime as described in
Like the rest of the GNU system, these programs mostly conform to
POSIX, with BSD and other extensions. For closer conformance, or
conformance to a particular POSIX version, set the POSIXLY_CORRECT
and the _POSIX2_VERSION environment variables, as described in
the documentation under "Standards conformance".
The ls, dir, and vdir commands are all separate executables instead of