Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site basser.SUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!mulga!munnari!basser!kvm From: kvm@basser.SUN (Karlos Mauvtaque) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Sigstack and BSD 4.2 Message-ID: <237@basser.SUN> Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 00:37:46 EST Article-I.D.: basser.237 Posted: Sun Mar 18 00:37:46 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:27:22 EST References: <147@celerity.UUCP> Organization: Dept of C.S., University of Sydney Lines: 9 I think the answer to the "why" is because there was nothing better to do at the time. This also explains arbitrary changes like those to awk and to _filbuf and so on. This change seems particularly absurd, who in their right mind would use "features" as amazingly unportable as this? I don't even want to gethostname(), as convenient as it may seem. I want my programs to work on lots of UNIX* systems. Or do we think that 4.2 will become a new standard?