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To: marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de
Cc: mike@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: sys/file.h and POSIX
From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message: <619340000.1039364545@leeloo.intern.geht.de>
            Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> writes:
: > Why are you specifying a standard and then using features outside its
: > scope?  Either you want a BSD environment (in which case don't specify
: The standard is specified to get the standard functions. Eg. if i specify 
: _POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L then I want (for example) POSIX's flockfile, if the 
: OS supports POSIX. This doesn't mean that I don't want rpc.

Actually, yes it does.  When you specify a standard, you exclude all
things not in that standard.  It is a crap shoot if they work.  At
least that's how these _*_SOURCE macros have worked on all other
systems that I've used.

Warner

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