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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: POSIX and ISC 2.2.x -- how many people are using this?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.215401.1501@am.sublink.org>
Date: 19 Apr 91 21:54:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr14.193335.26288@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991Apr16.235122.26807@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
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src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

:real strange, i have compiled quite a lot with something like
:
:gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DPOSIX -o bla bla.c -lcposix
:
:for instance, bash-1.05, tcsh-5.20.02, elm-2.3#11 and lots more.
:i never tried the stuff mentioned in cc(1) like setenv OSTYPE POSIX,
:since it works for me without that (and my hacked bash definitely
:is full of posix job control etc).

Ah, just the man for me!-)  Being reasonably familiar with BSD job
control, and having tried to gain understanding of Posix jc via the
standards text and some discussions in the comp.std.unix archives, I
find I must have failed, since when I tried to hack bash to posix jc
on my Interactive 2.2 I got no results save a few shell hangs! I bet
I'm not the only one in a similar predicament... would you like to
enlighten us?  I think you can assume that BSD jc is understood,
indeed jc-related diffs on Bash with a few theory pointers might be
enough...
I'll gratefully accept 'literature pointers' too, of course.

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