On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:18:07AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > > This is just their intehtions explanation, not excuse. If several > > standards are in contradiction, POSIX vote is final. It may surprise you, > > but it covers and changes lots of cases comparing to minimalistic C > > standard. Such additions/changes are specially marked with different color > > (gray). > > I do not have a place of discovery handy, but wasn't POSIX explicitly > deferring in to the C standard and giving it precedence for any > conflicts between the C standard library and POSIX? What really happens is more complex thing. POSIX tries to follow C standard as close as possible. If POSIX makes an addition not mentioned in the relatively minimalistic C or SUS standards (because such case even was not considered there but vital enough to system level), this addition not contradicts with C standard _directly_ i.e. not opposite it, but from now two example cases handled equaly by minimalistic standards handled now differently by POSIX due to additional (non-described previously) treatement. -- http://ache.pp.ru/Received on Thu Jan 20 2005 - 22:54:46 UTC
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