Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: motives for AT&T, etc (was re: att & osf) Message-ID: <1988Aug19.180342.19917@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <12755@mimsy.UUCP> <5980026@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 18:03:42 GMT In article <5980026@hpfcdc.HP.COM> rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk) writes: >Yes, the words "option" and "implementation defined" appear much more >in POSIX than in the SVID... It is worth noting, mind you, that a number of the POSIX gray areas -- last time I saw them -- were exactly the sort of things that no sensible programmer makes his program depend on anyway. Who *cares* whether "." and ".." show up when you examine a directory?!? You're only going to ignore them anyway. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu