On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:54:28PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > If there is a portable solution, it is preferred over the more system > specific solutions. There are several people in Debian GNU/Hurd who have a > copy of POSIX and experience in writing portable programs and can help out > on such issues, and everybody who is working on porting issues should feel Yes - it's just that that's not always happening. Actually, one thing that one of the other ports used to have (and perhaps still has) was a web page with common portability problems and suggested fixes. Something like that might come in very handy. > free to ask there what the best approach is. (BTW, It's better to not trust the > Linux man pages too much. The "conforming to" information is useful, but > the man pages in general are not reliable). It's mostly the "conforming" information I use them for. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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