On 12/7/17 9:59 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
My first job at Sun was POSIX conformance. As such, I
worked a lot with
the Sun POSIX guy, Don Cragun. He must have been the exception that proves
your rule because he definitely matched the description of an altruistic
person trying to make things better. They aren't all bad.
Agree. Don's a good guy.
In my Posix standardization experience, most of the participants really are
trying to improve the standard and ineroperability, within some fairly
serious constraints.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu
http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/