Re: Will we ever raise _POSIX_VERSION ?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 9:40 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 8:28 PM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> The delta between the two is small...
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> 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...
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> Also, we should have a new standard that's the first major revision since
> 2001...
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Nobody has paid someone to do the drudge work of ticking off all the
boxes... it's not terribly hard work, just tedious.  Especially since there
will likely be a few variations in glibc that programs expect too...

Warner

Warner
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