From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@cse.psu.edu>
To: Alan Watson <alan@oldp.nmsu.edu>
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: RC => POSIX
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:54:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199703061754.MAA23504@cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Mar 1997 12:15:49 EST." <9703061715.AA30380@oldp.nmsu.edu>
Alan Watson <alan@oldp.nmsu.edu> writes:
| The behaviour of rc is, for all intents and purposes, fixed. We are
| talking about rc-1.5 not because we want new features or want bugs
| fixed, but because we want rc-1.4 to work on new iron. Presumably,
| those people with old iron can continue to run rc-1.4.
On the contrary. If you just ignore all the posix inventions you can
still compile and run Unix programs, because posix systems always
include compatability features. For example, there's no need for
sigaction, because signal does the right thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-03-06 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-06 17:15 Alan Watson
1997-03-06 17:54 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
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1997-03-29 20:23 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-27 9:58 Malte Uhl
1997-03-26 11:54 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-26 16:45 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-26 8:33 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-26 16:38 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-25 22:30 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-24 9:18 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-24 20:22 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-08 0:13 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-06 17:40 Tom Culliton
[not found] <199703061512.KAA21040@explorer2.clark.net>
1997-03-06 16:57 ` Malte Uhl
1997-03-06 16:54 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 15:22 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 14:09 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-06 13:46 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 10:16 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-07 1:45 ` Greg A. Woods
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