[PATCH 1/3] os/xfree86: remove macro checking for POSIX symbols

[Alan Coopersmith]

Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) wrote:
> Hi Guillem,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:14:12AM +0200, ext Guillem Jover wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 15:39:17 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
>>> We assume already that our X implementation is POSIX compliant anyway. So
>>> remove those redundant checking.
>> Well POSIX-1.2001, some of these are still XSI extensions, namely
>> SIGSYS, SIGVTALRM, SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ (which only switched to mandatory
>> in POSIX-1.2008).
> 
> ouch, good catch. Anyway, I'm pretty sure we're going to start a long
> discussion if we try to set a base POSIX for X right now...

So far, the generally accepted baseline has been Unix98, which is before
POSIX & Unix/XPG standards started doing coordinated releases, so includes
POSIX-1.1990 but not yet POSIX-1.2001 (which was the base for Unix03).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification

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