From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 1 12:33:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA12020 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 12:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12003 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 12:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA10024; Wed, 1 May 1996 12:24:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605011924.MAA10024@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Flaws in system() implementation? To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 12:24:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: jraynard@dial.pipex.com, terry@lambert.org, julian@ref.tfs.com, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605010957.LAA01540@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at May 1, 96 11:57:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Apparently the XPG4 specs are only available from X/Open and cost > > about GBP250/US$400. (At least that's what I understand from their Web > > page - http://www.x.org). > > For those really keen on getting info from the XPG/4: I have the most > relevant books sitting here on my shelf. Leftover from a previous job. > > Unfortunately hardly machine readable but it beats having no info at all. > > What are you people looking for? Hmmmm... the most salient feature of XPG/4 is support for greater than i18n internationalization. The way it actually implements this is real broken, because file name length limits and fixed field input and storage break when you use runic encoding. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.