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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2023 21:40:32 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Will we ever raise _POSIX_VERSION ?
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On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 8:28 PM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I notice that _POSIX_VERSION is still set to 200112L.  That's a shame,
> because it prevents zstd from using utimensat and tzdata from using
> strftime_l, even though we implement both of those functions.  And who
> knows what programs in ports are keying off of it.  What would be
> required for us to confidently raise it to 200809L or later?
>

The delta between the two is small...

It would take an exp run to find out... it would also tell you 90% of
what's needed as well as trigger a few false positives where ports are
naughty...

Also, we should have a new standard that's the first major revision since
2001...

Warner

>

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<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 8:28 PM Alan Somers &lt;<a href="mailto:asomers@freebsd.org">asomers@freebsd.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I notice that _POSIX_VERSION is still set to 200112L.  That&#39;s a shame,<br>
because it prevents zstd from using utimensat and tzdata from using<br>
strftime_l, even though we implement both of those functions.  And who<br>
knows what programs in ports are keying off of it.  What would be<br>
required for us to confidently raise it to 200809L or later?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The delta between the two is small...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It would take an exp run to find out... it would also tell you 90% of what&#39;s needed as well as trigger a few false positives where ports are naughty...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, we should have a new standard that&#39;s the first major revision since 2001...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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