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From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: Standards Update, 1003.1 System services interface
Message-ID: <386@longway.TIC.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 89 01:18:10 GMT
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From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)

In article <384@longway.TIC.COM> std-unix@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