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Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:

> This is just their intehtions explanation, not excuse. If several 
> standards are in contradiction, POSIX vote is final. It may surprise you, 
> but it covers and changes lots of cases comparing to minimalistic C 
> standard. Such additions/changes are specially marked with different color 
> (gray).

I do not have a place of discovery handy, but wasn't POSIX explicitly
deferring in to the C standard and giving it precedence for any
conflicts between the C standard library and POSIX?

-- 
Matthias Andree