The following issue has been SUBMITTED. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1828 ====================================================================== Reported By: nick Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 Issue ID: 1828 Category: Base Definitions and Headers Type: Clarification Requested Severity: Editorial Priority: low Status: New Name: Nick Stoughton Organization: User Reference: Section: sys/stat.h Page Number: 395 Line Number: 13468 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2024-05-02 16:23 UTC Last Modified: 2024-05-02 16:23 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Rationale is out of date Description: The rationale for sys/stat.h states <blockquote> This version of the standard specifies the traditional encoding, in recognition that nearly 20 years after the first publication of this standard numeric file modes are still in widespread use by application developers, and that all conforming implementations still use the traditional encoding. </blockquote>
However, at this point we are around 36 years after the first publication, and numeric file modes are still in widespread use. Desired Action: on lines 13467-13468 (Issue 7 TC2) change <blockquote> in recognition that nearly 20 years after the first publication ... </blockquote> to <blockquote> in recognition that many years after the first publication ... </blockquote> ====================================================================== Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2024-05-02 16:23 nick New Issue 2024-05-02 16:23 nick Name => Nick Stoughton 2024-05-02 16:23 nick Section => sys/stat.h 2024-05-02 16:23 nick Page Number => 395 2024-05-02 16:23 nick Line Number => 13468 2024-05-02 16:23 nick Interp Status => --- ======================================================================
