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

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: gdg <at> zplane.com
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 15486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15486: Should references to POSIX.2 in grep.1 be changed?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:04:41 -0700

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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Glenn Golden <gdg <at> zplane.com> wrote:
> --
> (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"?

close 15486
thanks

Actually, "POSIX" seems fine, now.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've made the switch with the attached patch:

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