On 29 October 2007 01:01, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
"My way is right and everyone else's is wrong".
Better write your own compiler then.
cheers,
DaveK
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