Re: request for clarification on Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7: Canc...

2017-06-10 Thread SHwareSyst
I don't see the interface invoked to block the thread is allowed to cancel the request completely, simply that the interface may return to reduce serialization latencies for the 2 bullet point cases and the cancellation honored at the next plausible point in the code path, in accordance with

Re: [1003.1(2013)/Issue7+TC1 0001045]: Issues with "cd -"

2017-06-10 Thread SHwareSyst
In a message dated 6/10/2017 10:16:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nore...@msnkbrown.net writes: (it's not even clear if such arrays of bytes may be stored in shell variables). This is allowed, clearly, but you currently have to jump through hoops to make use of an arbitrary sequence when

[1003.1(2013)/Issue7+TC1 0001045]: Issues with "cd -"

2017-06-10 Thread Austin Group Bug Tracker
A NOTE has been added to this issue. == http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1045 == Reported By:stephane Assigned To:

Re: [1003.1(2016)/Issue7+TC2 0001142]: pread(2) and pwrite(2) should be async...

2017-06-10 Thread SHwareSyst
Sorry for the confusion, I was looking at some code recently that appears to initialize a new file description with independent seek pointer from an open handle as part of what they call a dup(). It does save having to track the path string so open(path, ...) doesn't have to be used