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by 0x69420 1435 days ago
yeah, unfortunately, despite literally being specified in posix (hell, macos bundles it)

one of these days i will go around pestering distro release engineers to include it; after all, it's less heavyweight than any one of their homespun lightdm greeters
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mananaysiempre 1435 days ago
The set of utilities specified in POSIX is, erm, not entirely sensible[1]. Though POSIX is more helpful than most large standards I’ve seen, it still ends up mostly having partial implementations (are there any completely 2008-compliant systems, I wonder?).

[1] http://www.landley.net/toybox/roadmap.html#susv4

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