24 Jun
2024
24 Jun
'24
9:23 p.m.
On 6/23/24 4:15 PM, Stuff Received wrote:
My opinion is that the authors simply did not have
access to other systems
or were not interested. Sometimes, one finds a disclaimer to that effect.
I understand that but I am irked when they claim POSIX compliance.
These are not at all the same. "POSIX compliance," from an application's
perspective, means that the application behaves the way POSIX says it
should for the behaviors POSIX standardizes. That doesn't have much to do
with the author's implementation choices or whether or not the
application runs on arbitrary systems.
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/