Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Wine.

[John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>]

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I think you are right.  POSIX-like would be a better word.

J'

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 02:47:15PM -0200, Bruno F??lix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
     Em Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:48:15 +0100
     John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> escreveu:
     
     > As I understand it, it only even comes close, if the POSIXLY_CORRECT
     > environment variable is set.  Even then there are some differences.
     
     I think you are right.  However, they often use "POSIX-compliant"
     loosely. Something that would be better described as "POSIX-like" or
     "almost POSIX-compliant for our practical needs", or even
     
     "Unix-like-like-the-one-we-used-to-build-and-run-our-code-successfully".
     
     Absolute and strict compliance to a given standard, with almost
     mathematical certainty, is something rather theoretical.  I'm not an
     expert, but I think that, even without 'POSIXLY_CORRECT' set, GNU
     is a quite good "POSIX-compliant" OS in the vulgar sense, given that it
     satisfies the majority of programs intended to run under
     "POSIX-compliant" operating systems.  And, IMHO, that's what they
     usually mean.
     
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