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- From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
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- Subject: Re: POSIX - Caving In Under Its Own Weight (Long)
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 23:26:17 -0800
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- In article <1hdndfINNi52@ftp.UU.NET>, stephe@mks.com (Stephen Walli) writes:
- > 1. I haven't seen your spec (and I know its electronically available :-)
- > but how big is it wrt POSIX.1? I think size and scope has a lot to
- > do with some of the problems in POSIX.
-
- the spec all up is 120-odd pages, including system requirements etc.
- so it is maybe a third of 9945-1 and some infinitesimal fraction of 1003.2.
- the size is a second order effect, i think; the thing that hurts you most
- is the precision you need, and the need to cover a bunch of extent systems.
-
- > 2. I found the two book/two context problem really hurts usability.
- > ( I don't believe this is the simple publishing problem some people
- > think it is.) Are their similar concerns with your spec?
-
- nup. we were smart enough to insist on the 5 parts of our spec
- being published together as a single volume. and another standard being
- done at the same time which uses two of our parts verbatim is also
- including those two parts in their volume for mainly readability issues.
-
- > 3. How many language bindings are there to your LIS? And what languages
- > are they?
-
- As we are a format standard, and not an application interface standard,
- we have no languages as such. however, specific descriptor formats are
- analogous to languages; we include one such binding (that is, one set of
- descriptors) in the standard. (as an example, i know of some work on
- another binding with rather different performance characteristics.)
-
- > 4. Have you seen the current POSIX.1/LIS and POSIX.16 C-binding?
- > If so, what did you think?
-
- regrettably, not for some time. is it possible to get something
- electronic?
-
-
- andrew hume
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 95
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