[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for textultils 2.1 coreutils 5.0 "-1" deprecation

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:54:18AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Diego Biurrun writes:
>  >  > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>  >  > > 
>  >  > >>The new head and tail deprecates -1 in favour of -n 1 the patch just 
>  >  > >>changes that when needed.
>  > 
>  > If nobody objects I will apply this during the next few days, the
>  > change is trivial.
> 
> Applied.
> 
> This is so trivial it belongs in 0_90, too IMHO.  If nobody objects I
> will apply it in a few days.

AFAIK it is wrong. Old pre-posix head/tail probably do NOT support
-n!!! So this is nonsense! If gnu head/tail is printing warning/error
crap when -1 is used now, the developers need their heads examined!

Rich