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- From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
-
- Regarding the choice to make Posix 1003.2 dependent on only a Posix
- 1003.1 subset: Amoeba (a distributed OS developed here at CWI and VU in
- Amsterdam) currently has problems supporting all of 1003.1 (its file
- sharing semantics are essentially different, for one thing) but should
- nevertheless be able to support 1003.2.
-
- Also, even though we cannot guarantee 1003.1 conformance in all areas,
- we (the Amoeba group) do conform whereever we can. All library
- functions, headers and constants required by 1003.1 will be there,
- although some functions will always return an error and others will not
- obey the exact prescribed semantics under certain conditions. We
- believe we have done the best we could given the possibilities of our
- file system.
-
- Should we be punished for non-conformance or given some points for not
- deviating unnecessary?
-
- --
- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
- guido@cwi.nl or ..!hp4nl!cwi.nl!guido or guido%cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net
- "A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise"
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 87
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