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- From: jms@apple.com (John Michael Sovereign)
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- In article <9951@cs.utexas.edu> jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions) writes:
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- > This makes the assumption that there is indeed a single POSIX name space,
- > to which pieces are added by the various working groups. This assumption,
- > while a reasonable one, is in fact not correct.
-
- There is, however, a single C language name space which new standards (and
- revisions)
- pollute as long as they continue to use header files already defined by
- ANSI C and/or POSIX.1
- (as I believe Doug Gwyn pointed out recently).
-
- > The various 1003.* working groups are *not* developing separate
- components
- > of an overall, integrated POSIX standard. Each POSIX standard stands
- alone....
-
- >From what I've heard, there HAS been discussion at the ISO level of
- bundling the C language
- interfaces of POSIX.2 and/or POSIX.4 into future versions of 9945-1.
- Unfortunately, a decision on this matter might be delayed until after the
- IEEE standards have been adopted....
-
- As far as _POSIX_1_SOURCE goes, it's not clear to me why the existing
- _POSIX_SOURCE
- can't be used (perhaps modified) for this purpose.
-
- John Sovereign
- jms@apple.com
- "Perhaps software developers should face the same legal support
- requirements as parents."
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 121
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