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Hyrum's Law

   With a sufficient number of users of an API,
   it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
   all observable behaviors of your system
   will be depended on by somebody.


One more reason to actually reimplement coreutils. Figuring out these undocumented promises also makes it easier to ensure correctness in general.


You’re downvoted but you’re correct. The uutils folks have been submitting bugs and test cases upstream. It actively helps both projects.


Every change breaks someone's workflow. https://xkcd.com/1172/




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