On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: > Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:29, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > Smake warns about all illegal Makefile content. If you dowmload the > > > > latest > > > > > > illegal according to which standard document and version ? > > > > > > Please give a full reference. > > > > POSIX. > > >From page iii of the 2004 PDF edition: > > # Use of an IEEE Standard is wholly voluntary. [...] > # The existence of an IEEE Standard does not imply that there are no > # other ways to produce, test, measure, purchase, market, or provide > # other goods and services related to the scope of the IEEE Standard. > > Calling non-POSIX code "illegal" is clearly a distortion; it implies > that POSIX is a law, while it is really just a recommendation...
Calling POSIX a "law" and calling it a "recommendation" are extreme ends of the spectum is you ask me. How about meeting in the middle and calling it a key UNIX/Linux industry standard? Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
