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- From: ahby@uinj.UI.ORG (Shane McCarron)
-
- > From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
- >
- > Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought the specific task of
- > 1003.5 was to provide Ada-language bindings to 1003.1, not to
- > add functionality.
-
- Remember the history of POSIX.1. We have a standard which should have
- been specified in a language independent manner. If that had been
- done, a number of the functions that are in the standard would not be
- there, or would be in the C bindings section. They are convenience
- functions for C. Likewise, there will be convenience functions for
- other languages. Ada is particularly nasty, for all the obvious
- reasons.
-
- Someday there will be a language independent 1003.1 specification. It
- will detail the real functionality of the underlying system in such a
- way that it will be clear to people doing language bindings which
- features they must include. Until then, there will continue to be
- confusion on the subject.
-
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- Project Manager UUCP: mccarron@uiunix.ui.org
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 50
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