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Article #373Re: _POSIX_1_SOURCE (was: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.1: System services)interface
From: John Michael Sovereign
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 03:27
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 03:27
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From: jms@apple.com (John Michael Sovereign) In article <9951@cs.utexas.edu> jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions) writes: > This makes the assumption that there is indeed a single POSIX name space, > to which pieces are added by the various working groups. This assumption, > while a reasonable one, is in fact not correct. There is, however, a single C language name space which new standards (and revisions) pollute as long as they continue to use header files already defined by ANSI C and/or POSIX.1 (as I believe Doug Gwyn pointed out recently). > The various 1003.* working groups are *not* developing separate components > of an overall, integrated POSIX standard. Each POSIX standard stands alone.... >From what I've heard, there HAS been discussion at the ISO level of bundling the C language interfaces of POSIX.2 and/or POSIX.4 into future versions of 9945-1. Unfortunately, a decision on this matter might be delayed until after the IEEE standards have been adopted.... As far as _POSIX_1_SOURCE goes, it's not clear to me why the existing _POSIX_SOURCE can't be used (perhaps modified) for this purpose. John Sovereign jms@apple.com "Perhaps software developers should face the same legal support requirements as parents." Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 121
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!jbc From: jms@apple.com (John Michael Sovereign) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: _POSIX_1_SOURCE (was: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.1: System services)interface Message-ID: <9997@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 03:27:28 GMT References: <9951@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: jbc@cs.utexas.edu Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Organization: Apple Computer Lines: 37 Approved: jbc@cs.utexas.edu (Guest Moderator, John B. Chambers)