Joerg Schilling wrote: > Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > > Is it possible to make this interface "Uncommited" until the IEEE > > P1003.1 Draft has been made an official standard (e.g. what would you do > > if somehow the Draft changes the prototype or functionality in a subtle > > way - add another symbol or add some more hacks which depend on the > > |libc::__xpg6| variable) ? > > The function is in the Opengroup draft since a few years and the opengroup > standard was accepted last year. > > Why do you believe this will be changed?
I just want to be carefull. Creating "commited" interfaces based on a draft standard already resulted in "interesting" problems for Solaris (e.g. when the draft changed again before being approved by the standard bodies) since it wasn't possible to change that commited interface anymore. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
