Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!longway!std-unix
From: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: POSIX vs SVID
Message-ID: <319@longway.TIC.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 89 22:54:39 GMT
References: <11916@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1108@auspex.UUCP> <1132@auspex.UUCP> <318@longway.TIC.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)

From: uunet!BRL.MIL!gwyn

In article <318@longway.TIC.COM> rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes:
>I understand that there are some conflicts between ANSI C and the
>1003.1 definitions, ...

ANSI C doesn't address file permissions (other than implicitly to
allow an open operation to fail if the permissions aren't right).

Perhaps you're thinking of apparent conflicts wrt "environ" and
the timezone stuff.  Solutions to that have been devised.

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