Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 15:44:09 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS Message-ID: <9508142144.AA00561@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508141545.RAA13872@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 14, 95 05:45:44 pm
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> >Well, that's yet another way in which pmake is broken with respect to > >POSIX. I'm not at all surprised to hear it. We don't need to make > >the situation even worse than it already is. > > Is POSIX a religion? I want a good OS ... POSIX is a standard. Standards are useful two ways: 1) Conformance guarantees you a certain level of code portability. 2) You can appeal to them as a judge of "correct" behaviour when a dispute arises. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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