From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 12:30:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA21671 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 12:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA21658 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 12:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA01217; Tue, 21 May 1996 15:29:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:29:38 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605211929.AA01217@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Gary Kline Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Utilities and POSIX compliance.... In-Reply-To: <199605211857.LAA20510@athena.tera.com> References: <199605211857.LAA20510@athena.tera.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Can any of the BSD gurus point me at the person or persons > who are working on the utilities? Since there are around > 300 utilities, I'm guessing that there are several people > involved. You're guessing wrong. > I'd like to know why more of the Berkeley utilities aren't > POSIX-compliant. Because there isn't anybody who (1) is competent to update them, (2) cares, and (3) has sufficient free time to do so. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant