CLIENT-SPECIFICATION: require support for common as an arg in platform flag #15855
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As discussed in #15253 (comment) and in the chatroom this PR updates the client spec to require clients to support passing common as a platform to the platform flag i.e.
tldr -p common some-command
when a page exists in the native platform too but is a bit different (i.e. non POSIX, etc).We currently document a lot of POSIX variant pages in common and use the above format to reference pages but it was brought to my notice by a user that some clients (both official and community ones) don't support this behavior yet, this addition ensures that this works the same regardless of the client.