[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Mika Borner]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> -H -L -P are Options defined by POSIX.2-1001
>
> In general, it makes sense to act similar to the POSIX standardization
> process. Options from other implementations are first checked and discussed for 
> their significance and importance. Under these constraints, a GNU find option
> -mmin has no chance as there is a much better way to specify times in a sub-day
> maner as found in e.g. sfind and BSD find.
>
>   
+1

In fact, if you check the first page of www.kernel.org it clearly states 
following:

"Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by 
Linus Torvalds [...] . It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX 
Specification <http://www.unix-systems.org/> compliance."