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

[Darren J Moffat]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Don Cragun" <dcragun at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Sun was and still may be a paying andthus voting member of the OpenGroup.
> 
> Who from Sun is now officially taking the word for making proposals that are 
> intented to become a POSIX enhancement?
> 
> Another question is: why did the strl*() functions from Sun not make it into 
> the current POSIX standard? Was there no related proposal from Sun?

IIRC Sun did not invent the strl*() functions IIRC we copied them from 
OpenBSD.

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Darren J Moffat