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Date:      Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:05:28 +0100
From:      Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: POSIX and the real life or FreeBSD too strict ?
Message-ID:  <1004540000.1039424728@leeloo.intern.geht.de>
In-Reply-To: <20021209001645.GA1618@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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> Yes, but Solaris 8 and glibc disagree about whether
> _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is required.  As for FreeBSD, I think your
> general complaint about it being too picky is invalid; everyone
> else does things the same way, and standards even require that no
My experience is that others do it a little bit different. (Thefore this 
thread..:)) Even FreeBSD 4.x does it different.
> extra symbols are defined by standard headers unless otherwise
IIRC then the standards says that no strictly conforming POSIX application 
should be broken my system extensions. It doesn't describe how the system 
should do that..

Regards,
Marc

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald E. Knuth
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