From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:48:43 -0400 > POSIX doesn't exist in a vacuum, we need to harmonize reality with the > standard. If an implementation exists where sun_path has no > null-terminator then it is useful to have POSIX clarify that > null-termination is implementation defined behaviour, just like it > says that sun_path's length undefined. Under "Application Usage" or > "Examples" it's valid to talk about specific implementations. > > See: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/sys/un.h.html, > where it talks about BSD in the "Application Usage." It's about time > we some "Linux this" and "Linux that" in there. Ok, thanks for explaining. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
