Standards Update, 1003.1 System services interface

[Doug Gwyn]

From: gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)

In article <384 at longway.TIC.COM> std-unix at uunet.uu.net writes:
>....  Supplement B also includes symbolic links, truncate(), ftruncate(),
>putenv(), clearenv(), getpass(), seekdir(), telldir(), chroot(), fchmod(),
>fchown(), and fsync().

We deliberately left seekdir() and telldir() out of IEEE Std 1003.1,
because they cannot be reliably implemented in all reasonable UNIX-based
environments.  I wish people would quite trying to second-guess the
original work.

Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 17