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- Submitted-by: tg@utstat.toronto.edu (Tom Glinos)
-
- At the risk of being flamed back into the stone age I'll offer
- the opinion that the whole POSIX exercise has been a waste, for
- the following reasons.
-
- [1] It's never been clear to me what the original POSIX proposals were
- supposed to define and accomplish. (What is the deliverable?)
- [2] This led to the ever widening number of groups. (More deliverables.)
- [3] Some groups then started to argue and propose interfaces that in
- some cases had never been widely implemented or thoroughly studied.
- [4] Some groups have let company and market pressures direct what should
- be an exercise in common sense and good engineering.
-
- It's been a bit more than a year since I looked at any POSIX document.
- If memory serves me correctly it's been about 5 years since the first
- document was tabled. Has nothing been voted on? When will it all end?
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- "Life is so much more meaningful if you take the time to hunt down and strangle
- twits who post blather to inappropriate newsgroups." Henry Spencer
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 65
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