From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] APE inconsistencies
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:03:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130329190345.GA2335@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24472F85-7A42-4CDD-8CF2-5A1CEB25E109@corpus-callosum.com>
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...
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Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-29 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-29 17:13 Jeff Sickel
2013-03-29 17:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-29 17:25 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-03-29 17:41 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-29 18:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-29 18:26 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-03-29 19:03 ` tlaronde [this message]
2013-03-29 19:12 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-29 20:10 ` tlaronde
2013-03-29 20:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-03-30 2:37 ` a
2013-03-29 22:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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