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- Submitted-by: david@mks.com (David Rowley)
-
- In article <159qf1INNeu8@ftp.UU.NET> hoogerwerf_glenn@tandem.com (Glenn Hoogerwerf) writes:
- >Submitted-by: glenn@rainier.berkeley.edu (Glenn Hoogerwerf)
- >
- > 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 If a utility is marked as TO BE WITHDRAWN in XPG4, does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.
-
- Actually, X/Open is being extremely flexible about XPG4 Branding,
- since they are eager to get people branded. You can brand anything as
- XPG4 Command and Utilities conforming as long as you document what is not
- supported. The 'TO BE WITHDRAWN' commands are likely candidates to not
- be supported in a vendor's implementation. The question of whether this
- meets market expectations, is of course, another matter.
-
- David.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 77
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