Re: Will we ever raise _POSIX_VERSION ?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 8:28 PM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I notice that _POSIX_VERSION is still set to 200112L.  That's a shame,
> because it prevents zstd from using utimensat and tzdata from using
> strftime_l, even though we implement both of those functions.  And who
> knows what programs in ports are keying off of it.  What would be
> required for us to confidently raise it to 200809L or later?
>

The delta between the two is small...

It would take an exp run to find out... it would also tell you 90% of
what's needed as well as trigger a few false positives where ports are
naughty...

Also, we should have a new standard that's the first major revision since
2001...

Warner

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