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- Submitted-by: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
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- In article <13q7f3INN48i@ftp.UU.NET> brnstnd@KRAMDEN.ACF.NYU.EDU (Dan Bernstein) writes:
- >Most programs available in C source are conforming POSIX.1 applications:
- >they don't talk to the kernel except via stdio.
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- There is more involved with POSIX.1 conformance than just "stdio." A
- conforming 1003.1 application can even bypass stdio completely (that *is*
- why open(), close(), et al are defined in the standard).
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- Very few programs avaiable in C are actuallly POSIX compliant, as most of
- them were written for UNIX, and make assumptions about what is avaialble in
- the programming environment.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 46
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