motives for AT&T, etc (was re: att & osf)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <5980026 at hpfcdc.HP.COM> rml at hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk) writes:
>Yes, the words "option" and "implementation defined" appear much more
>in POSIX than in the SVID...

It is worth noting, mind you, that a number of the POSIX gray areas --
last time I saw them -- were exactly the sort of things that no sensible
programmer makes his program depend on anyway.  Who *cares* whether "."
and ".." show up when you examine a directory?!?  You're only going to
ignore them anyway.
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