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From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: kern/11020: popen does not honor ISO 9899 syntax
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The following reply was made to PR kern/11020; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: johan@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/11020: popen does not honor ISO 9899 syntax
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:44:37 -0400

 > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-standards
 > Responsible-Changed-By: johan
 > Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Aug 22 17:30:24 PDT 2002
 > Responsible-Changed-Why: 
 >       the popen() library function does not recognize the optional "b"
 > 
 > 	Is this something we want to/ should do?
 
 I don't think so.  Since popen() is a POSIX-defined function it would
 make little sense to add an option which would be useful for extending
 popen() for non-UNIX platforms.  Does anyone else have any comments
 about this, or notes about other platforms that support this
 extention?
 
 Best regards,
 Mike Barcroft

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