From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:42:46 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] What UNIX Artifacts Are Still Missing? In-Reply-To: <20171207145947.GB6170@mcvoy.com> References: <1512559547.S.4343.377.f5-147-236.1512565117.28135@webmail.rediffmail.com> <201712070614.vB76EFiQ014953@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20171207145947.GB6170@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 12/7/17 9:59 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > My first job at Sun was POSIX conformance. As such, I worked a lot with > the Sun POSIX guy, Don Cragun. He must have been the exception that proves > your rule because he definitely matched the description of an altruistic > person trying to make things better. They aren't all bad. Agree. Don's a good guy. In my Posix standardization experience, most of the participants really are trying to improve the standard and ineroperability, within some fairly serious constraints. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/