On Monday 26 April 2010 23:03:22 Don Armstrong wrote: > It's a system wide default which can be changed by the administrator > or by Debian. If the code fails when that default is changed, the code > is buggy. > > There's no reason for the code to rely on a particular setting of the > default when it can easily enforce the particular value that it only > works with. Can you indicate me which part of the standard says that? Bye -- Salvo Tomaselli