On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 01:20:48AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 11:45:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> we're still left with the question of why
> >> Solaris' "nm" doesn't support the POSIX-required options.
>
> > In POSIX, -g and -u are mutually exclusive. Solaris ignores all but the first
> > of these in a command:
>
> I've just re-read the POSIX spec for "nm", and I do not see anything there
> that would support that interpretation. Still, we can try it without -g
> and see what else breaks.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/nm.html says:
nm [-APv] [-g|-u] [-t format] file...
If the options weren't mutually-exclusive, it would say:
nm [-APvgu] [-t format] file...