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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
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