From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 24 21:13:33 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A055737B401; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476E143E7B; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@espresso.q9media.com) Received: by espresso.q9media.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 617769C11; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:06:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:06:39 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: Mark Valentine Cc: Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include unistd.h Message-ID: <20020925000639.O14878@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200209250233.g8P2XWP1086668@dotar.thuvia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209250233.g8P2XWP1086668@dotar.thuvia.org>; from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:33:32AM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Valentine writes: > > From: wollman@freebsd.org (Garrett Wollman) > > Date: Tue 24 Sep, 2002 > > Subject: cvs commit: src/include unistd.h > > > wollman 2002/09/24 18:58:56 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > include unistd.h > > Log: > > Back down to 1003.2-1992 for the time being -- it is causing too many > > headaches for common but deprecated uses of standard utilities. > > The backout is probably wise for now, but I'd certainly like to see a way > to get your good work activated in some environment or other (progress and > stability can co-habit, I'm sure). I've suggested elsewhere a path > based mechanism for choosing BSD vs. POSIX behaviour (hardly a novel idea). > > Thanks again for your work in the standards arena. I think the old school > will be your most fervent supporters _and_ detractors! This was discussed on -standards a while ago, and the general agreement was that we'd create a /usr/posix/bin to house compliant versions of utilities, if there was a conflict between the standard behaviour and existing behaviour. This might be a good opportunity to put it into use. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message