Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:03:51 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org>, standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml Message-ID: <20020612120350.GA34267@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <200206120410.g5C4AZC52661@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <200206120410.g5C4AZC52661@dotar.thuvia.org>
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:10:35AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote:
> > From: nectar@freebsd.org ("Jacques A. Vidrine")
> > Date: Wed 12 Jun, 2002
> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml
>
> > /usr/svr4, anyone? *smirk*
Well, I was kidding here, but...
> /usr/posix, perhaps. We're not trying to add System V compatibility,
> we're trying to be standards compliant.
This has an attraction to it.
> Putting /usr/posix/bin at the front of your path would prefer POSIX
> behaviour to BSD behaviour where there are conflicts.
I don't think we'd need a complete hierarchy... just /usr/posix/ps and
so on (much as some OSs have /usr/ccs or /usr/bsd).
Cheers,
--
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