missing features from POSIX
Moderator, John Quarterman
std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Wed Oct 29 04:30:15 AEST 1986
From: pyramid!amdahl!hlj at sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 06:59:26 PST
Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
In article <6128 at ut-sally.UUCP>:
>From: utah-cs!cbosgd!cbosgd.ATT.COM!mark (Mark Horton)
>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 20:51:58 est
>
>In comparing various C libraries and standards, I discovered several
>important routines that are in neither POSIX nor X3J11. I'd like to
>find out why they are missing. Would you please either answer these,
>ask the appropriate person, or post to mod.std.unix?
>
>Some of these functions were explicitly created to enhance portability,
>so it seems surprising to omit them.
>
>getopt...
>
This is actively being addressed in the 1003.2 Shell and Utilities
Working Group.
>curses...
>
This is not being addressed by 1003.2, as we are purposely avoiding
terminal interfaces and concentrating on shell interfaces from application
programs, such as through...
>popen...
>
which _is_ being included in 1003.2.
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