[issue1306] sed(1) adds trailing newline

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

Alex Hornung (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
Alex Hornung <ahornung at gmail.com> added the comment:

Standard[1] dictates: "Whenever the pattern space is written to standard 
output or a named file, sed shall immediately follow it with a <newline>."

In my personal opinion, though, I'd prefer to see a gnu-compatible sed, even 
if that means breaking standards compliance.
The standard is exceptionally clear on this, and I don't quite see why we should introduce a regression for an insignificant script which assumes sed is operating in a non-conforming way.  Their shell script is wrong.

cheers
 simon