Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: [patch?] truncate and timestamps | Date | Thu, 22 May 2003 20:14:50 -0700 |
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> "POSIX says" has value only if there is at least some consensus among > implementations. Otherwise it's worthless, simply because any program > that cares about portability can't rely on specified behaviour and > any program that doesn't couldn't care less anyway - it will rely on > actual behaviour on system it's supposed to run on.
This type of attitude ensures there never will be a consensus among implementations. A lack of consensus today is not grounds for failing to comply with a standard specifically designed to eliminate that lack.
On the other hand, that has to be balanced by how objectively reasonable or unreasonable the standard is. However, there should be an extremely strong preference for concurring with the standard, even against the weight of other implementations.
DS
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