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

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
 > 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!

Sun also needs to take some anti brain damage pills urgently.  It's
the only system out there without a decent default shell.  We've
already had many headaches because of them.

Diego