* Ed Schouten <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I thought about this a long time. While I have sympathy for your
> > approach, I think it is not the right way in the end. When confronted
> > with a broken standard, the right way would be to fix the standard.
> > Providing an implementation that works around the broken parts is not
> > the answer, because it does not send a clear message to the standard
> > authors.
>
> Which is the reason why I submitted this issue to the folks at the
> Austin Group as well.
And it got approved, which means future revisions of POSIX will allow
implementations similar to the one I proposed:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=96
Cheers,
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Ed Schouten <[email protected]>
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