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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:54:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/expr expr.1 expr.y src/include unistd.h src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc check_utility_compat.3 check_utility_compat.c
Message-ID:  <200210281854.g9SIsXZ5041577@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200210281836.g9SIaSDW071723@dotar.thuvia.org>
References:  <200210281630.g9SGUnMb040700@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200210281836.g9SIaSDW071723@dotar.thuvia.org>

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<<On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:36:28 GMT, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> said:

> My scheme (inspired by a proven implementation in Solaris) addresses
> both

The only thing that's proven about the Solaris implementation is that
nobody actually uses it, and so people keep on writing scripts which
*require* pre-POSIX behavior rather than writing scripts which are
compatible with both.

-GAWollman


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