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- Submitted-by: brnstnd@KRAMDEN.ACF.NYU.EDU (Dan Bernstein)
-
- Mod writes:
- [ I wrote: ]
- > > Most programs available in C source are conforming POSIX.1 applications:
- > > they don't talk to the kernel except via stdio.
- > 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.
-
- I don't think this is factually correct. There is more C code available
- from various scientific computation code archives than has ever passed
- through USENET. And then there are all the C programs sold in source by
- various companies; how many such programs actually use system calls?
-
- So it doesn't make sense to ask for a list of conforming POSIX.1
- applications. There are thousands of those. The question is whether any
- *systems code* is POSIX-compliant---i.e., whether there's any code
- conforming to POSIX.1 which actually uses features within the scope of
- POSIX.1. Is there?
-
- ---Dan
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 54
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