Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 16:11:37 +0100 From: Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: POSIX and the real life or FreeBSD too strict ? Message-ID: <584000000.1039360297@leeloo.intern.geht.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi! While working with some third-party applications, which require the availabilty of POSIX functions, I became conviced that FreeBSD is (way) too strict. IMHO no non-POSIX is available isn't workable in the real world and isn't neccessary regarding the standard. (IMHO it isn't even in the spirit of the standard..) If I catched the standard correctly it demands only that the POSIX function/defines/headers are available not that others are not. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) And, most important, it isn't done on the other UNIX implementations out there (at least none I know about..). So we get needlessly a lot of uncompileable code. Which forces vendors to do extra work to deal with specifically. Are there any plans to change FreeBSD's behaviour to be less strict ? Best regards, Marc "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald E. Knuth [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE982Ep7YQCetAaG3MRAu0lAJ919CadDJUAxALMKjANn4afWyt9nwCcD+wf nSkaBj4LUBk8qmOsLBa0inQ= =LR3n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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