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Submitted-by: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)

In article <190k6vINN5g9@ftp.UU.NET> brnstnd@KRAMDEN.ACF.NYU.EDU (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
>   I wish POSIX would stop shooting off into the cosmos, come back to
>   earth, and spend some time documenting what UNIX systems actually *do*.

Funny, the POSIX meetings I've been to have tended to involve a lot of
discussion of existing practice and a lot of drudging through existing
documentation and rehashing it in the dullest possible language.  What
that drudging has generally led to is a realization that none of the
existing documentation specifies *anything* completely enough and that
every vendor's UNIX system is different.  So you have to write a
standard that specifies things nobody specified before and you have to
try to merge different versions of the same functionality.  And if
you're a responsible engineer, you have to resist standardizing bad
practice just because it is existing practice.

scott
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