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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Posix Compliance
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 02:19:14 GMT
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In article <1me016$4j8@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
> Just to reassure people, 386BSD will remain POSIX compliant.

Why?

Bear with me. The point to standard interfaces is to make it easier to
write portable code. If you don't care about that (and if you're making
changes to the kernel interfaces this early in the game, you don't) why
bother with POSIX?
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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