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New International Standard: ISO/IEC 9945:2002

Posted by michael on from the one-posix-to-bind-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ISO/IEC and The Open Group announce international approval of the joint revision to POSIX® and the Single UNIX® Specification. More info here."

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  1. YAATHL by PhysicsGenius · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yet Another Attempt To Hamstring Linux.

    Why do these huge conglomerates think they can keep pumping out "standards" designed to remove consumer choice from the marketplace? If the People want to buy an OS, such as Linux, that puts the time remaining into the time_t struct in the select call instead of leaving that param unmodified, then I think they should be able to do that. If that means they have to write a wrapper around select or use some compile time conditionals, then so be it.

    Linux is about choice and I suggest that we do what the customer wants, not some faceless standards committee.