[Libreoffice-qa] Minutes of ESC call: 2014-10-16

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On 20/10/14 17:04, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> I was just hesitant to write POSIX as Im pretty sure we are using functionality
> beyond that (and that works because a lot of things work on BSD/OSX too that
> arent strictly POSIX). Restricting ourselves to POSIX purity just for the
> standards sake, rather than that "it should work on all platforms" seem like a
> mostly futile endevour to me.

Bear in mind that linux uses Posix as a guideline, not a requirement.
Linus ignores "stupid" Posix stuff, and I'm sure others do too ...

Cheers,
Wol