From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from math.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with SMTP id SAA13664 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 18:36:51 +1000 (EST) Received: by math.gatech.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02473; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 04:17:53 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 18:16:16 +1000 (EST) Old-Return-Path: From: Geoff Wing Message-Id: <199510270817.SAA13131@werple.net.au> Subject: Re: ZSH's future - POSIX To: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov (Mark Borges) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 18:16:16 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <9510262244.AA21513@charney.cdc.noaa.gov> from "Mark Borges" at Oct 26, 95 04:44:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: mason@werple.net.au Resent-Message-Id: <"0FfT73.0.Zc.mM9am"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@euclid.math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/500 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@euclid.math.gatech.edu :>> 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"