From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:03:45 +0100 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130329190345.GA2335@polynum.com> References: <17666A31-B506-46C1-972F-2D6407C4B8DD@corpus-callosum.com> <20130329174148.GA98286@intma.in> <24472F85-7A42-4CDD-8CF2-5A1CEB25E109@corpus-callosum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <24472F85-7A42-4CDD-8CF2-5A1CEB25E109@corpus-callosum.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] APE inconsistencies Topicbox-Message-UUID: 39fecabc-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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... -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C