From: Michael Matz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:08:23 +0100 (CET)
> <tongue-in-cheek> > You mean like POSIX doesn't count very much for the kernel behaviour? > </tongue-in-cheek> Nice scarecrow. Linux has and will break POSIX where POSIX asks unreasonable and stupid things. And in particular we will not follow POSIX if doing so breaks pervasive practices in userspace that have worked under Linux for a long time. We do not follow paper standards blindly. Practical considerations alway trump standards. Standards are often wrong or it's authors did not consider a particular case sufficiently.
