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- Submitted-by: glenn@rainier.berkeley.edu (Glenn Hoogerwerf)
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- After reviewing the XPG4 snapshot, I am left with the following
- question. If a utility is marked as TO BE WITHDRAWN in XPG4, does
- this open the utility up as being waiverable. In other words, does
- one have to implement pax, tar, and cpio, instead of just pax.
- Another example is cc and c89. It seems unreasonable that one
- would have to implement a dead interface, such as cc, if it is going
- away in the next release. I realize that many of the interfaces
- might consist of shells that turn around and call the POSIX.2
- interface, but in the case of lint or dis, life is not that simple.
-
- - Glenn Hoogerwerf
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