On Friday 28 August 2009 08:37:06 Ed Schouten wrote:
> * 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

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