From: Waider (waider at domain dspsrv.com)
Date: Tue 25 Jun 2002 - 10:37:27 IST
According to Philip Reynolds:
> Waider's [waider at domain waider.ie] 44 lines of wisdom included:
:) nice attrib
> Like I mentioned previously in my post, POSIX compliance has helped
> and efficiently to rule in and out certain aspects of the Operating
> Systems features.
Aha. In every place I've worked for the last $count years, I have never once
come across an OS choice based on POSIX compliance or lack of same. And that
spans somewhere close on a dozen Unix variants across those places. And
surprise me: are there really and truly 100% POSIX-compliant systems out
there?
Re: portablity, btw, I think more people have been put out by Sun's SVR4
compliance (putting all the nice toys into /usr/ucb and putting the SVR4
versions in the default path) than have been comforted by the portability
issue. Perhaps this is less of a big deal with POSIX, and I should just
shut up and find a copy of the spec to read :)
Cheers,
Waider.
-- waider at domain dspsrv.com / Chances are I'm not at home right now.
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