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