From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cse.psu.edu ([130.203.3.50]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24633>; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:55:06 -0500 Received: from eiffel.cse.psu.edu (schwartz@eiffel.cse.psu.edu [130.203.10.16]) by cse.psu.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA23504; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:54:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199703061754.MAA23504@cse.psu.edu> To: Alan Watson cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: RC => POSIX In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Mar 1997 12:15:49 EST." <9703061715.AA30380@oldp.nmsu.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:54:59 -0500 From: Scott Schwartz Alan Watson 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.