Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:52:29 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@cytherea.weblab.nsu.ru> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: <sys/types.h> or not <sys/types.h>? [Was: cvs commit: src/include grp.h] Message-ID: <20020226165229.GA54321@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020226151423.A57693@cytherea.weblab.nsu.ru> References: <200202251355.g1PDtmb35078@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020225140030.GD33818@nagual.pp.ru> <3C7A458F.427FFF8A@FreeBSD.org> <20020225142352.GA34378@nagual.pp.ru> <200202251828.g1PISL382207@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020226084959.GA43948@nagual.pp.ru> <20020226151423.A57693@cytherea.weblab.nsu.ru>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 15:14:23 +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:49:59AM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 13:28:21 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > <<On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:23:53 +0300, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> said: > > > > > > >> From IEEE P1003.1 Draft 7: > > > > > > You're looking at the wrong document. FreeBSD is very far from being > > > ready to implement POSIX 2001 header files. POSIX 1990, which we do > > > implement, requires <sys/types.h> almost everywhere. > > > > Well, if we are very far, it will be just little step to be closer. On > > other case we will be very far forever. If you mean hypotetical one-step > > transition mega-patch in future, it will breaks too many things at once to > > be something real. > > Is there any chance we will come anywhere close to POSIX 2001 at all? > What about targeting to POSIX 1990/1996 *now* instead of aiming to the > standard that would likely be rendered obsolete by the time we would > reach it? Especially, we still appear to not have an agreement on > standard changes introduced between 1996 and 2001. Please note that in the case we discuss proposed change is backward compatible with 1996 standard, i.e. including <sys/types.h> in addition to <grp.h> not produce any unwanted effects. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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