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- From: pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer)
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 20:18:05 CDT
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- Apart from my overall objections to the concept of job control, there is
- one thing seriously wrong with the P1003 job control proposal as posted:
- it assumes that function names are distinct in at least the first 8
- characters, as witness "setpgrp" vs. "setpgrp2" and "getpgrp" vs. "getpgrp2".
- Note that an X3J11-conforming C implementation need distinguish only the
- first 6 characters. I would suggest revised names for the new primitives,
- perhaps "setjpgrp" and "getjpgrp", with implementations which distinguish
- 8 or more characters providing "setpgrp2" and "getpgrp2" names as well for
- maximum compatibility with existing mistakes.
-
- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 70
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