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  1. Submitted-by: karish@pangea.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
  2.  
  3. In article <13t5r3INN4gn@ftp.UU.NET> franl@centerline.com
  4. (Fran Litterio) writes:
  5.  
  6. >If it calls select(2), it's not POSIX.1 comforming.  Can someone
  7. >comment on the reason(s) why select(2) didn't make it into POSIX.1?
  8.  
  9. The POSIX.1 committee's charge was to codify existing
  10. practice, as exemplified by descriptions of widely-used
  11. implementations of UNIX (4.3BSD and System V system
  12. documentation; the 1984 /usr/group Standard).
  13.  
  14. Since select() was not present in SVR2 and its ancestors,
  15. it was not a sufficiently well-established part of existing
  16. practice that the people who wanted it could overcome the
  17. objections of those who saw a higher priority in minimizing
  18. changes to existing systems.
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  20.  
  21.     Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
  22.     (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@forel.stanford.edu
  23.  
  24.  
  25. Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 49
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