On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 15:14:23 +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:49:59AM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 13:28:21 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > <<On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:23:53 +0300, "Andrey A. Chernov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > > > > > > >> From IEEE P1003.1 Draft 7: > > > > > > You're looking at the wrong document. FreeBSD is very far from being > > > ready to implement POSIX 2001 header files. POSIX 1990, which we do > > > implement, requires <sys/types.h> almost everywhere. > > > > Well, if we are very far, it will be just little step to be closer. On > > other case we will be very far forever. If you mean hypotetical one-step > > transition mega-patch in future, it will breaks too many things at once to > > be something real. > > Is there any chance we will come anywhere close to POSIX 2001 at all? > What about targeting to POSIX 1990/1996 *now* instead of aiming to the > standard that would likely be rendered obsolete by the time we would > reach it? Especially, we still appear to not have an agreement on > standard changes introduced between 1996 and 2001.
Please note that in the case we discuss proposed change is backward compatible with 1996 standard, i.e. including <sys/types.h> in addition to <grp.h> not produce any unwanted effects. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
