On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:58:40PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >Cgf wrote: > >[snip] > >> I think it's a pretty hard problem and I really don't care >> about POSIX > >??? This must be a typo, or you wouldn't be here.
You're right. It wasn't a typo but it was too strongly stated. I really don't care about POSIX in this case because I don't care about slavish adherence to POSIX standards at the expense of decreasing cygwin performance, adding a lot of complexity, or removing functionality. For example, I don't want to make Cygwin 1% slower so that a corner case problem like foo/../bar will work correctly and I don't want to remove functionality from 'tar' because the 't' option to fopen() isn't mentioned by POSIX. And, although I use SUSv3 as a reference, when I'm looking for compatibility, I really only care about how things work on linux. If there is a conflict between POSIX and linux, then linux wins, unless there is a really compelling case otherwise. Luckily, usually linux and SUSv3 agree. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
