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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS
To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
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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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