From: Geoff Wing <mason@werple.net.au>
To: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov (Mark Borges)
Subject: Re: ZSH's future - POSIX
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 18:16:16 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199510270817.SAA13131@werple.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9510262244.AA21513@charney.cdc.noaa.gov> from "Mark Borges" at Oct 26, 95 04:44:33 pm
:>> Zoltan Hidvegi(Z) wrote:
:>> The code should conform to the IEEE POSIX 1003.1 standard and to
:>> the proposed ANSI-C standard so that it should be portable to all
:>> such
:Z> Thanks to Richard, zsh is one of the most portable program I've
:Z> ever seen. I think ksh could'n beat it.
:Yes, I agree. Richard should take a bow here ;-).
I seem to remember there was a problem with some of the stat() and associated
stuff. Mainly because POSIX doesn't support all the S_I*() stuff used.
There would need to be a large rewrite of one part of code to make it fully
POSIX compatible. One really big drawback with POSIX compatibility is its
lack of support for things like symbolic-links, sockets, etc.
--
Mason [G.C.W] mason@werple.mira.net.au "Hurt...Agony...Pain...LOVE-IT"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-10-27 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-10-26 6:26 ZSH's future [longish] ? Mark Borges
1995-10-26 7:25 ` ZSH's future Richard Coleman
1995-10-26 15:13 ` ZSH's future [longish] ? Zoltan Hidvegi
1995-10-26 22:44 ` Mark Borges
1995-10-27 1:37 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1995-10-27 8:16 ` Geoff Wing [this message]
1995-10-27 22:53 ` ZSH's future - POSIX Richard Coleman
1995-10-27 8:20 Geoff Wing
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