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- Submitted-by: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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- In article <1nja8cINNc45@ftp.UU.NET> jeffrey@netcom.com (Jeffrey Kegler)
- writes a lot of good stuff about test-methods.
-
- And lest anyone think he's crying wolf, the crippled POSIX subsystem
- described in Windows NT literature should be enough to show otherwise.
- But if that's not enough, I've run into situations where a vendor has
- implemented a device driver in such a way that some features are totally
- useless, and refused to fix them because they still conformed to the
- SVID. For example, a serial driver that would not let you raise DTR
- after dropping it, either by closing it and reopening or by setting
- B0 and then B2400, since the SVID didn't specify that you be able to
- raise DTR again except by doing a "first open" with no control terminal.
-
- The technical people at this vendor agreed the implementation was broken,
- but weren't allowed to fix it because the SVID didn't explicitly say
- that anything else was required.
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