[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2[PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009] (Roland Mainz)

[James Carlson]

Don Cragun writes:
> During the last revision cycle, the committee received requests to explicitly
> add these functions because they are widely used in Linux application
> programming and were a portability problem for people porting code from
> Linux systems to POSIX/UNIX platforms.  I don't remember any requests to
> add stplcpy() and wclpcpy().  If they had been suggested we could easily have
> added them as well, but the cross platform portability consideration concerns
> would still have been enough to add the function that were added.

OK; that just reinforces my +1 with nose held.

Ugly stuff, that.

> > Don Cragun was RIF'ed and right now I don't know anyone at Sun who can
> > be queried for standards issues.
> 
> Even though I am no longer at Sun, I'm still interested in OpenSolaris.  I'm
> remaining involved in Austin Group activities on my own dime.

Great to hear!

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