21 Jun
2015
21 Jun
'15
8:06 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:
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From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember what that environment variable *used* to be called before political correctness became important.
There are so many layers in that observation that I'm lost.
Was posixly-correct a purposeful pun on politically correct, and I've missed it all these decades?
Or was it named something else earlier than that, which wasn't itself politically correct?
I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a kerfluffle regarding whether /bin/du should use units of 1,000 or 1024. http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html