Standards Update, 1003.1 System services interface
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at brl.arpa
Fri Sep 1 11:18:10 AEST 1989
From: gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
In article <384 at longway.TIC.COM> std-unix at 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
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