Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:04:18 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG, jau@iki.fi, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/107561: Missing SUS function tcgetsid() Message-ID: <200701072004.l07K4Iko053501@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200701051108.l05B8Zl8008051@www.freebsd.org>
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Jukka Ukkonen wrote: > This is SUS compatibility only. > This was not strictly required by POSIX at the time it was implemented > for SUS, but since SUS clearly is a major driver in the POSIX activities, > tcgetsid() might be an obvious future extension to POSIX anyhow. > And furthermore there is no sane reason for sticking to POSIX only, > if the extension needed to become better compatible with other major > specifications happens to be this easy. In fact, tcgetsid() is part of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 a.k.a. POSIX-2001, which is equivalent to SUSv3. The proposed implementation looks good to me (we would also need an appropriate manual page, though). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "I invented Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous." -- David Bradley, original IBM PC design team
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