From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:16:23 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Does this mean Linux is now "officially branded UNIX"? In-Reply-To: <58c94c4e.ywmehec4cxSvdppy%schily@schily.net> References: <20170312150410.GH27536@naleco.com> <58c6714f.IBfM/wqgeKrLugki%schily@schily.net> <58c7fad0.H3V/v3UHdCpwwB0E%schily@schily.net> <20170314232725.GC14659@naleco.com> <58c92160.ZlvHdWOkL83pBDeR%schily@schily.net> <1489585365.3442859.912122976.442EDB92@webmail.messagingengine.com> <58c94c4e.ywmehec4cxSvdppy%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: <1489590983.3467430.912238176.0034B198@webmail.messagingengine.com> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017, at 10:14, Joerg Schilling wrote: > It seems that you do not understand POSIX the right way. > > POSIX does not invent new features but rather standardizes existing > features > present in existing UNIX implementations. Yes but what I was suggesting was that this may have been a case of too eagerly standardizing a new feature that one implementation had added without considering whether there was a good reason to impose that feature on other implementations. I mean, surely not *everything* that SVr4 does is in POSIX. There must therefore be some rationale for selecting which features, particularly features that are not already universal, to standardize. So what was the rationale for including this one?