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Article #5850Re: realloc
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 17:54
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 17:54
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In article <740@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes: >One of the SVID's biggest flaws is that it is NOT a standard: it was never >balloted and approved by anyone. That's not a necessary criterion for a standard. >It is an interface specification for a particular implementation of Unix. That argument was rejected by Federal courts during the AFCAC-251 appeals. The SVID is a useful specification for waht constitutes "UNIX functionality", much more so than any available alternative. It certainly is not logically tied to a particular implementation, although for economic reasons most would license AT&T's product rather than start from scratch. >If the SVID were a standard, there would have been no need for P1003. >Unfortunately, there were a couple of hole in the SVID which you could >drive trucks through, hence P1003. Nah, IEEE P1003's formation had little to do with the SVID.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: realloc Message-ID: <9963@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 31 Mar 89 17:54:27 GMT References: <10170@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <DAVIDL.89Mar29091834@intelob.intel.com> <740@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 20