Re: Access to old POSIX specifications (Was: s/2013/2016/g at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html)

2017-06-08 Thread Andrew Josey
Stephane Comments below > On 8 Jun 2017, at 16:51, Stephane Chazelas > wrote: > > 2017-06-08 15:28:49 +0100, Geoff Clare: >> Stephane Chazelas wrote, on 08 Jun 2017: >>> >>> BTW, are older (than SUSv1) versions of POSIX available >>> somewhere? >> >> All previous versions were only distribu

Re: Access to old POSIX specifications (Was: s/2013/2016/g at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html)

2017-06-08 Thread Joseph Myers
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2017-06-08 15:28:49 +0100, Geoff Clare: > > Stephane Chazelas wrote, on 08 Jun 2017: > > > > > > BTW, are older (than SUSv1) versions of POSIX available > > > somewhere? > > > > All previous versions were only distributed on paper. > > OK. Does any

RE: Access to old POSIX specifications (Was: s/2013/2016/g at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html)

2017-06-08 Thread Joe Gwinn
: s/2013/2016/g at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html) On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2017-06-08 15:28:49 +0100, Geoff Clare: > > Stephane Chazelas wrote, on 08 Jun 2017: > > > > > > BTW, are older (than SUSv1) versions o

RE: Access to old POSIX specifications (Was: s/2013/2016/g at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html)

2017-06-08 Thread Joseph Myers
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Joe Gwinn wrote: > Joseph M, > > What will you do with this old standard? I routinely use these standards for reference for implementation work (since in practice implementations deal with multiple standard versions, not just the latest), as well as for understanding the hi

Re: Access to old POSIX specifications (Was: s/2013/2016/g at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html)

2017-06-09 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2017-06-08 22:15:57 +, Joe Gwinn: [...] > What will you do with this old standard? [...] In my case, it's only for personal interest, archaeological purposes, to answer questions like: - when was that added to which standard? - is feature X a POSIX invention? - was feature Y in implementation