Re: [dev] on a potential libc replacement

Have you read the whole thing? Have you ever seen a complete
implementation? Hell, have you ever seen a standard that doesn't suck?

Pthreads, locales, mmap, sockets, ioctl, select/poll, ... and that is
without going into all the hideous api details that even saner parts
of the spec are full of.

uriel

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jacob Todd <jaketodd422_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> I see people saying this all of the time, but never an explanation.
> Could you elaborate why posix is a piece of shit?
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Uriel wrote:
>> The only problem is that PoSix is a piece of shit.
>>
>> uriel
>>
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Kurt H Maier <karmaflux_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://libposix.sourceforge.net/
>> >
>> > It's an implementation of POSIX 2008 -- and nothing else! ??This is the
>> > sort of thing we can use to build a suckless coreutils package, in my
>> > opinion.
>> >
>> > --
>> > # Kurt H Maier
>> >
>> >
>>
>
> --
> Jake Todd
>
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