mark kandianis wrote:
and as for pOSIX and linux, linux is not limited by the pOSIX standard,
it makes the standard by doing it making it happen. i've seen LINUX
move beyond
and do things that posix has yet to endorse but does so it can be LINUX
aware.
All interesting OS'es have extensions beyond the core POSIX standards, but
those are often sources of great problems when trying to make portable software
such as XFree86. The original question asked about getting it into the standard
presumably to avoid such problems. XFree86 already has a number of extensions
beyond the core standards - it would be easy to create another one there, but
then there's no guarantee of interoperability with other OS'es, and different
OS'es end up with different versions, or none at all - a situation you can see
today with XFree86 non-standard extensions such as Render or RandR. If all you
care about is OS'es which run XFree86, that's not a problem - but that may not
even be all Linux distributions in the future if any of them decide to start
shipping the Xouvert or freedesktop.org or some other X server instead.
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