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Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?

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From: Glenn Golden <gdg <at> zplane.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 15486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15486: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:46:31 -0600

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(This came up as a side issue when looking into details of bug #15483;
it's not directly related, so filing as a separate report.)

There's a FAQ put out by opengroup.org

    http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html

which remarks (Q10) that "a POSIX.2 standard no longer exists".  Should 
grep.1 [2.14] (which refers to POSIX.2 in several places) be updated to refer
instead to "the Shell and Utilties volume of POSIX.1-2008"? Or perhaps just
"POSIX.1"?

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