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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:03:51 -0500
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org>
To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>,
	Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org>, standards@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:10:35AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote:
> > From: nectar@freebsd.org ("Jacques A. Vidrine")
> > Date: Wed 12 Jun, 2002
> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml
> 
> > /usr/svr4, anyone? *smirk*

Well, I was kidding here, but...

> /usr/posix, perhaps.  We're not trying to add System V compatibility,
> we're trying to be standards compliant.

This has an attraction to it.

> Putting /usr/posix/bin at the front of your path would prefer POSIX
> behaviour to BSD behaviour where there are conflicts.

I don't think we'd need a complete hierarchy... just /usr/posix/ps and
so on (much as some OSs have /usr/ccs or /usr/bsd).

Cheers,
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