From owner-freebsd-standards Wed Jun 12 16: 8: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.203.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8734637B405; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5CN7sJZ001521; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:07:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Message-Id: <200206122307.g5CN7sJZ001521@orthanc.ab.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg Organization: The Frobozz Magic Homing Pigeon Company To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: Juli Mallett , standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:32:48 +1000." <20020612173248.A68800@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au> X-Mailer: mh-e 5.0.92; MH 6.8.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:07:54 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Tim" == Tim J Robbins writes: Tim> I think an environment variable is a decent way to solve this Tim> problem. The way some of the GNU tools do it, which I happen Tim> to agree with, is to check an environment variable Tim> "_POSIX2_VERSION", then fall back to the sysconf() variable by Tim> the same name. I prefer the environment variable approach. It makes it much easier to control a command's behaviour on a per-invocation basis. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message