Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/21/23:18:21
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:58:40PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>Cgf wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> I think it's a pretty hard problem and I really don't care
>> about POSIX
>
>??? This must be a typo, or you wouldn't be here.
You're right. It wasn't a typo but it was too strongly stated. I
really don't care about POSIX in this case because I don't care about
slavish adherence to POSIX standards at the expense of decreasing cygwin
performance, adding a lot of complexity, or removing functionality.
For example, I don't want to make Cygwin 1% slower so that a corner case
problem like foo/../bar will work correctly and I don't want to remove
functionality from 'tar' because the 't' option to fopen() isn't
mentioned by POSIX.
And, although I use SUSv3 as a reference, when I'm looking for
compatibility, I really only care about how things work on linux. If
there is a conflict between POSIX and linux, then linux wins, unless
there is a really compelling case otherwise. Luckily, usually linux
and SUSv3 agree.
cgf
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