On Mon Apr 26 23:21, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > 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? > If POSIX-compliant apps may only work with one setting then the standard would say "only this setting is compliant with POSIX". Since it does not, we must assume that a sysadmin choosing either value results in a POSIX-compliant system. If an application fails to work on such a system it must ipso facto not be POSIX-compliant and hence buggy. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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