On 29 March 2013 20:10, <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
> It is a POSIX feature, I think.  It's just an outmoded one.  Supporting
> all revisions of POSIX is damn near impossible.  Does APE have an
> explicit target?

I think it's really a pragmatic matter of which interfaces are in some standard that can be named,
that are also needed by most software that's being imported (eg, newer versions of Python).