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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Standard libraries (Was: Environment variables)
Date: 1996/11/16
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Geert said

'As far as I have seen (looking at forest, I don't have the standard you
mention as it is not public) this binding is very Unix specific and
only meant for Unix systems.  So rather than defining an interface that
defines a consistent subset of the functionality most common platforms
have, it takes one (Unix) and wraps a thin layer around the standard C
library so it can be used in Ada."


Well it is POSIX specific rather than Unix specific, many non-Unix systems
have promised Posix compliance (including incidentally at one point OS/2).
Certainly for example NT provides POSIX compliance and so does VMS.

Yes, it is not necessarily portable to arbitrary non-POSIX compliant
environments but this discussion arose in the context of environment
variables, which are particular to Unix and Unix-like systems in any case.