POSIX vs SVID

[Moderator, John S. Quarterman]

From: uunet!BRL.MIL!gwyn

In article <318 at longway.TIC.COM> rja at edison.CHO.GE.COM writes:
>I understand that there are some conflicts between ANSI C and the
>1003.1 definitions, ...

ANSI C doesn't address file permissions (other than implicitly to
allow an open operation to fail if the permissions aren't right).

Perhaps you're thinking of apparent conflicts wrt "environ" and
the timezone stuff.  Solutions to that have been devised.

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