cvs commit: src/include fnmatch.h

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 17 12:42:15 PST 2003


On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:57:45AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> On Dec 17, 2003, at 6:02 AM, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 
> >The only reason I brought it up is because the absence of FNM_NOSYS on
> >BSD for the past decade apparently hasn't been noticed until now (why
> >now?), seeming to imply that there aren't any such applications.
> 
> Glad you asked.  It's basically my intention to bring FreeBSD's headers 
> and libraries as close to conformance to Unix03 as I can over the next 
> few months (years?), 

Excellent!  Then probably we'll see you on freebsd-standards.

[...]
> Finally, it's never 
> been bad for marketing to be able to say that "FreeBSD largely conforms 
> to the foo standard" on the back of the CDs. :-)

No disagreements here--- I was just under the (incorrect) impression
that facilities marked `OB' in the standard were optional.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
nectar at celabo.org jvidrine at verio.net nectar at freebsd.org nectar at kth.se


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