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From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: The new POSIX standard [Was: Re: statvfs]
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:14:49 +0100
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> It turns out that the Austin Group's work was approved as the 
> new POSIX
> standard on 6th December. A new version of the Single Unix 
> Specification,
> SUSv3, is due in Q2 of 2002. See:
> 
>    http://www.opengroup.org/austin/
>
> Draft 7 is the last draft of the Austin Group's work. I guess the new
> POSIX spec will have to be purchased from the IEEE.


Interesting.  Anyone have access to the draft 7 PDF (download requires
membership)?
This reminds me that I should think about finishing up the POSIX
getdate() function I started work on, as well as fixing setenv()
to be POSIX-compliant.  Or was that putenv()?  In any case, one of them
requires that the string passed be an actual part of the environment,
so that changes to the string change the environment; our implementation
currently doesn't work that way.