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- Submitted-by: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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- In article <1991Jun3.225808.8518@uunet.uu.net> OFM writes:
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- [ Personal comment here: the one vendor I personally know who had
- qualms about full POSIX compliance did so because of backwards-
- compatibility problems. I suspect many vendors will have the
- same reservations. So, how about it: is full compliance worth
- breaking old programs/scripts? --mod ]
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- I'm most interested in Posix.1, so I'll address that. If a compiler
- switch is provided (like gcc -ansi) then full compliance is possible.
- Given the _POSIX_SOURCE feature test macro, OS designers can load all
- they want in, and turn it off only when _POSIX_SOURCE is defined. I'm
- writing a Posix compliant system which will also be 4.4BSD compatable;
- I know whereof I speak.
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- -mib
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 86
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