Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:02:47 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | POSIX is God? (was Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #4149) |
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Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote: > Yep. It is Standard. If you want to forget POSIX, just say so. I'd like to > meet the standard, but if we don't... might as well kill some other POSIX > junk as well. Being almost-POSIX isn't worth much.
I guess you missed the discussion of the quality of the various posix standards.
This is a case where the issues are important enough (this particular posix standard was made out of whole cloth and not adequately field tested, no existing code base which requires posix behavior, no examples of applications which would ever need the posix behavior, etc.) that it looks like revising posix is a much more viable option than drastically rewriting linux.
Then again, it's probably going to be possible to meet the posix requirements with the existing implementation, with just a little thought.
I'm afraid you'll have to find another reason to trash big chuncks of Linux...
-- Raul
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