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- From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
-
- In article <696@longway.TIC.COM> std-unix@uunet.uu.net writes:
- > The goal of POSIX was not to bless existing botched implementations!
-
- If that's the case, why doesn't 1003.1 require 255-character file names?
-
- It has been observed in the past, by many people, that the most successful
- standards have been conservative ones. Standards that basically blessed
- what people have been doing anyway...
-
- > c) People who are concerned with portability with not stray
- > outside the domain that the standard guarantees to work.
-
- In the real world, people will write programs using their system and manual
- as a working base. If their system says that mmap() works such-and-such a
- way, they'll use it. They may even think that their program is portable,
- because mmap is in 1003.4.
-
- > You seem to be arguing that extensions should be prohibited.
-
- No, I'm arguing that extensions should be explicit. You should have to perform
- some magic juju so that you *know* you're stepping outside the POSIX consulate
- into the anarchic land of Vendor-Specificia.
-
- Like calling mmap() instead of whatever the POSIX routine is.
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