Missing version(Unix). Again.

[Sean Kelly]

James Dunne wrote:
> 
> POSIX is a very loosely defined spec.  It would be difficult to identify 
> the OSes that claim to be POSIX-compliant that implement radically 
> different behavior.  This is why there are so many POSIX-compliant OSes, 
> NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBDS, Linux, Solaris, etc.  Each one of them takes a 
> different stance on how the spec should be implemented, the corner 
> cases, etc.  I'm no expert in such things, but it poses a difficult 
> problem for application developers.

Yeah, POSIX stinks like that.  It was an intentional design 
consideration to avoid restricting POSIX compliance to a limited set of 
hardware.


Sean