Re: POSIX requires checking all *printf return values?!?

2007-10-19 Thread Nick Stoughton
The C standard is starting a revision ... while you may be too late for POSIX, you are NOT too late for C! Please consider writing a paper for the C committee; the paper should include background on why the feature is required, where it has been implemented, and proposed words for the standard. Th

Re: New uname option to query exact OS distribution

2004-08-23 Thread Nick Stoughton
rce kernel and library) had uname -d behaving as you describe, it would be appropriate for the standards committees to consider it for inclusion. But WE DON"T INVENT STUFF HERE (sorry for shouting, but it is a critical point!). (OK, the LSB invented lsb_release, but they also supplied it to all