Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:07:54 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml Message-ID: <200206122307.g5CN7sJZ001521@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:32:48 %2B1000." <20020612173248.A68800@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim J Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
Tim> I think an environment variable is a decent way to solve this
Tim> problem. The way some of the GNU tools do it, which I happen
Tim> to agree with, is to check an environment variable
Tim> "_POSIX2_VERSION", then fall back to the sysconf() variable by
Tim> the same name.
I prefer the environment variable approach. It makes it much easier
to control a command's behaviour on a per-invocation basis.
--lyndon
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