chown xxx.yyy, POSIX, and LSB

[Tim Waugh]

Hi,

In coreutils-5.2.0 I see that the dotted user.group form of chown(1)
is now rejected unless an environment variable is set, and I
understand that POSIX specifies that ':' is the separator.

Unfortunately, the Linux Standard Base specifies that '.' may be used
in addition.

Is there any chance of making this new rejection behaviour dependent
on POSIXLY_CORRECT (i.e. having the old behaviour remain the default
in its absence), rather than only providing the old behaviour with
_POSIX2_VERSION=199209?

Tim.
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