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- From: rja7m@helga1.acc.Virginia.EDU
-
- I strongly feel that the moderator's position is correct.
-
- [ What? The moderator has expressed no opinion.
- I'm the moderator. I should know. All comments
- by the moderator are enclosed in [ -mod ] pairs
- or appear in articles signed by the moderator. -mod ]
-
- I'm generally of the opinion that the whole POSIX and P1201
- process has gotten out of hand with too much premature
- standardisation and too many working groups and too much
- breadth.
-
- If a real-time system doesn't have or need a file system then
- it shouldn't try to be POSIX. Much of my present work involves
- real time controls and the notion that we should try to make them
- POSIX-compliant is laughable. Yes they are computers and they
- are programmable by the user but POSIX compliance for real-time
- controls that lack a file system is meaningless.
-
- It seems that a lot of vendors want to be able to say that they
- are "POSIX-compliant" without actually doing the work to make their
- products truly open and interoperable. The effort to water down
- the meaning of POSIX compliant appears to be rooted in such
- vendors' marketing desires rather than technical merit.
-
- Ran
- randall@virginia.edu
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 63
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