Re: UNIX Compatibility

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Thu May 26 2011 - 07:48:07 EST


On Mit, 2011-05-25 at 18:51 +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
[...]
> A user should be able to request (possibly dynamically) as many
> standards-compliant interfaces as possible from Linux (even if that
> precludes new features or optimizations).

A user can request anything anytime since ages. But if no one implements
and maintains it, s/he can't so anything anyways - except to implement
and maintain it on his/her own.

Bernd
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