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Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
>> this is part of the ABI, so we can't change this in 2006...
> 
> Ok, so Linux will never be fully posix compliant.
> 

That's largely already the case, mostly because there is unfortunately 
still a fair bit of rubber-stamping Solaris going on.

	-hpa