28 Mar
2025
28 Mar
'25
12:38 a.m.
I should have added that .1 does not talk about characters. That was left
to ANSI C
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
POSIX.1 is clear - a regular file is a sequence of
bytes and that is the
only requirement. See my previous email where I give the section number
which is very crisp.
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> What is a "character" according to POSIX? I suspect it's just a byte,
> which is a long-outdated definition, the char keyword notwithstanding.
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> -rob
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