Pending OpenSSH release, call for testing.

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Tue Aug 17 18:11:45 EST 2004


Hi,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:23:18PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> But whether you love them or hate them conformance to standards is
> important.  I choose to conform.  Basically you get whatever behavior
> you want and specify.  This is not a GNU thing but a POSIX standards
> conformance thing.  If you want POSIX 1003.2-1992 behavior then define
> that for your system.  You get to choose.

Nice argument, but a *major* pain for people providing software to run on
older systems as well as on recent systems.

gert
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