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Article #67Re: Standards Update, 1003.1 System services interface
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 01:18
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 01:18
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From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) In article <384@longway.TIC.COM> std-unix@uunet.uu.net writes: >.... Supplement B also includes symbolic links, truncate(), ftruncate(), >putenv(), clearenv(), getpass(), seekdir(), telldir(), chroot(), fchmod(), >fchown(), and fsync(). We deliberately left seekdir() and telldir() out of IEEE Std 1003.1, because they cannot be reliably implemented in all reasonable UNIX-based environments. I wish people would quite trying to second-guess the original work. Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 17
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!longway!std-unix From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Standards Update, 1003.1 System services interface Message-ID: <386@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 1 Sep 89 01:18:10 GMT References: <384@longway.TIC.COM> Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 13 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)