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On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 May 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, that assumption is a gross POSIX violation but we so far haven't seen
> > any platform that matters in real life that assigns the IFMT bits
> > differently.
> 
> Indeed. Just out of interest - Alan, what _is_ the crazy platform that 
> doesn't match what absolutely everybody else has always done?

You don't want to know :-)

But if you really must, it's an Atari platforms running FreeMiNT, but
was also essentially Atari's own MultiTOS as well which they adopted
from the original MiNT project.

Alan.