From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 7 20:39:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900E716A407; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0804A13C43E; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:39:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (mzsxer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l07K4Ihk053502; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:04:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id l07K4Iko053501; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:04:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:04:18 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200701072004.l07K4Iko053501@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG, jau@iki.fi, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200701051108.l05B8Zl8008051@www.freebsd.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-standards User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:04:24 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: standards/107561: Missing SUS function tcgetsid() X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG, jau@iki.fi, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:39:02 -0000 Jukka Ukkonen wrote: > This is SUS compatibility only. > This was not strictly required by POSIX at the time it was implemented > for SUS, but since SUS clearly is a major driver in the POSIX activities, > tcgetsid() might be an obvious future extension to POSIX anyhow. > And furthermore there is no sane reason for sticking to POSIX only, > if the extension needed to become better compatible with other major > specifications happens to be this easy. In fact, tcgetsid() is part of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 a.k.a. POSIX-2001, which is equivalent to SUSv3. The proposed implementation looks good to me (we would also need an appropriate manual page, though). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "I invented Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous." -- David Bradley, original IBM PC design team