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- Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
-
- I said:
- > >POSIX is not supposed to be a standard for UNIX only. In many non-UNIX
- > >environments a "decent implementation of fork" is quite difficult ...
-
- In article <17010@cs.utexas.edu> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- > Excuse me, but you're quite wrong. P1003 decided deliberately that we
- > (I was there) would not compromise the (1003.1) interface in order to
- > accommodate "layered" implementations, for example on non-UNIX based
- > operating system kernels.
-
- I don't think I'm wrong here, unless you're leaving something out.
-
- There's a difference between:
-
- P1003 will not compromise the interface to accomodate
- layered implementations.
-
- And:
-
- P1003 is for UNIX only.
-
- And I fail to see how an extension that happens to make it easier to
- write portable programs that remain reasonably efficient on layered
- implementations compromises the interface. Nobody's saying "get rid
- of fork()" this time.
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