From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Wine. Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:01:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20141115170103.GA23212@jocasta.intra> References: <1416062479-26430-1-git-send-email-iyzsong@gmail.com> <20141115144501.GA12614@jocasta.intra> <20141115130558.67cbfa45@freedom-laptop> <20141115154815.GA4721@intra> <20141115144715.685fef84@freedom-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpgit-0001nJ-0h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:01:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpgio-0005iv-PV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:01:18 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141115144715.685fef84@freedom-laptop> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bruno F??lix Rezende Ribeiro Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ????????? --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wrot= e: Em Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:48:15 +0100 John Darrington escreveu: =20 > As I understand it, it only even comes close, if the POSIXLY_CORRECT > environment variable is set. Even then there are some differences. =20 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 =20 "Unix-like-like-the-one-we-used-to-build-and-run-our-code-successfully= ". =20 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. =20 --=20 ,=3D ,-_-. =3D. Bruno F??lix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU; `-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels; \_/ All software must be free as in freedom; --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlRnhs8ACgkQimdxnC3oJ7P2/wCeLD3qtc4Sl8d+dHF6Sf7wIqjG /bcAnjN5EGLIijAJY4DvRyZGmPSPeF/s =jZb9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--