Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:42:48 -0500
From: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20211029214248.5rsezyh4wvgl2...@redhat.com>
| Another thing to consider: if enough implementations fix things NOW to
| use "--" in system() and popen(), then by the time we actually DO
| release Issue 8, it will already be common enough practice to
| standardize it.
I think you'd need to delay Issue8 by quite a long time, perhaps even
to the extent of making it be 203x rather than 202x, for that to be
practical.
If the only issue was whether implementations can claim posix conformance,
it would be less of an issue, but what is more important is whether users
reading what posix says works, find that's correct when they try it on the
system they're actually running. Old systems hang around for a long time,
it takes ages for them to gradually phase out to the extent where no-one
really cares about them any more.
kre
