On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 17:16:34 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
It seems this will satisfy Walter without impacting Sean..
As I understand, the idea is that Sean get little trying to fix posix standard: the only way to check if the code works on some platform is to compile and test it on that platform and posix standard doesn't change that. So various platforms ended up adding new functions to posix headers. Having straightforward translations of headers takes less thinking and probably helps migrate from C and doesn't change posix compliance of the headers - it remains conventional.
