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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Squueeezing Disk Space
Summary: SVID versus BSD
Message-ID: <1845@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 15:22:49 GMT
References: <2509@dasys1.UUCP> <7050@brl-smoke.ARPA> <10139@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <10139@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>You seem to believe that SVID compatibility => BSD incompatibility.
>This is largely false.

"Largely" may be the critical word here.  Consider a function 

     long gettz();

that returns the user's local timezone in seconds west of GMT, taking
into account daylight savings time.  I haven't figured out a way of
implementing this that works unchanged on both System V and 4.3BSD.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi