On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 08:03:45PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Jeff Sickel wrote: > > > > Though if I check recent FreeBSD manuals, it's all there. And given that > > this is part of the BSD extensions to APE, those might be more relevant > > than the Linux man pages. Not that BSD tries to be POSIX compliant > > any more or less than GNU/Linux. > > > > It should be indeed underlined that this is a compatibility feature, and > not a POSIX feature. It seems that it is still here for legacy > compatibility on BSD (it is still here in NetBSD for example) but the > question arises whether it is worth supporting (because starting to > support all not POSIX is a daunting task). > > This is what is said in the APE paper. The problem is not with Plan9 > APE, it is that there are not a lot of programs that are written in a > POSIX compliant way... >
It is a POSIX feature, I think. It's just an outmoded one. Supporting all revisions of POSIX is damn near impossible. Does APE have an explicit target? khm
