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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:42:12 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@queasyweasel.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include fnmatch.h
Message-ID:  <20031217204212.GA31706@madman.celabo.org>
In-Reply-To: <483CA6BC-30CB-11D8-AAAC-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com>
References:  <200312170256.hBH2uSOn062945@repoman.freebsd.org> <200312170254.hBH2sTJx062816@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031217132252.GA6018@madman.celabo.org> <20031217133953.GD60229@elvis.mu.org> <20031217140201.GB6018@madman.celabo.org> <483CA6BC-30CB-11D8-AAAC-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com>

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:57:45AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> On Dec 17, 2003, at 6:02 AM, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 
> >The only reason I brought it up is because the absence of FNM_NOSYS on
> >BSD for the past decade apparently hasn't been noticed until now (why
> >now?), seeming to imply that there aren't any such applications.
> 
> Glad you asked.  It's basically my intention to bring FreeBSD's headers 
> and libraries as close to conformance to Unix03 as I can over the next 
> few months (years?), 

Excellent!  Then probably we'll see you on freebsd-standards.

[...]
> Finally, it's never 
> been bad for marketing to be able to say that "FreeBSD largely conforms 
> to the foo standard" on the back of the CDs. :-)

No disagreements here--- I was just under the (incorrect) impression
that facilities marked `OB' in the standard were optional.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org jvidrine@verio.net nectar@freebsd.org nectar@kth.se



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