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- From: uunet!ames!harvard!ima!ima!karl (Karl Heuer)
-
- In article <318@longway.TIC.COM> rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes:
- >In article <1132@auspex.UUCP>, guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>One presumes they'll update the [SVR4] SVID to describe this; otherwise,
- >>while FIPS-compliant, their system may not be SVID-compliant....
- >
- >I'm sure Guy knows what he is talking about. In fact I'll be very surprised
- >if the next release of the SVID isn't 100% compliant with the NIST FIPS
- >variant of the POSIX (really IEEE 1003) definition.
-
- Probably. But what about the existing applications that depend on the
- semantics of the older SVID? Are they out of luck, or will they be somehow
- grandfathered in?
-
- Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 21
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