bug#62385: POSIX behavior of readlink, realpath

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2025-08-03 11:08, Collin Funk wrote:

> +  readlink will behave as if the -v option is used if the
> +  POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is defined.

This isn't true if -q/--quiet/-s/--silent is specified. I would reword 
this to something like "readlink now defaults to being verbose if 
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set."

The --usage message and doc/coreutils.texi should be updated to match 
the new behavior.

There's a spurious empty line inserted into readlink.c.
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