brian foster blfutvinternetie date mon 22 jul 2002 090941 0100 john p looney thats something posix would make every platform equally broken rather standing saying try make everyone better eh posix doesnt anything posix de jour specification voluntary minimal implementation encourage software transportability noone absolutely noone ever implement posix restricted posix commercial considerations etal may encourage posixcompatibility thats freelymade choice imho processs weakness general rule ignored occasion consider formal submissions proven technologies translates specifying moreorless common parts existing ix implementations actively contribute process committees loath bluesky solicit proposalsresearch pick uncommon unsponsored implementation even manifestly superior imho posix ix eg plan9 inferno otoh considering motivating force behind process argued weakness strength real world cant somethings suck yep say posix sucks per se old preposix ix world arguably least terms ease software porting one ixs claims fame perhaps first system one could seriously consider porting less intact relative ease software one architectureplatformvendor radically utterly different triple however people discovered theres lot difference consider porting actually porting problems silly selfinflicted eg assuming byteorientation particular endianness others frustrating system incompatibilities motivating force lead usrgroup xpg xopen posix spec1170 unix98 common unix tc nice thing standards theres many choose commonly attributed bwk cheers blf innovative experienced unix brian foster dublin ireland chorus embedded rtos kernel internals email blfutvinternetie expert looking new position mobile 353 086 854 9268 résumé contact see website httpwwwblfutvinternetie stop eo exxonmobile whatever dont buy esso dont give damn global warming httpwwwstopessocom supported greenpeace friends earth numerous others irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie mon 22 jul 2002 123208 0100 ilug copy files