missing features from POSIX

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

From: pyramid!amdahl!hlj at sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 06:59:26 PST
Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group

In article <6128 at ut-sally.UUCP>:
 >From: utah-cs!cbosgd!cbosgd.ATT.COM!mark (Mark Horton)
 >Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 20:51:58 est
 >
 >In comparing various C libraries and standards, I discovered several
 >important routines that are in neither POSIX nor X3J11.  I'd like to
 >find out why they are missing.  Would you please either answer these,
 >ask the appropriate person, or post to mod.std.unix?
 >
 >Some of these functions were explicitly created to enhance portability,
 >so it seems surprising to omit them.
 >
 >getopt...
 >
This is actively being addressed in the 1003.2 Shell and Utilities
Working Group.

 >curses...
 >
This is not being addressed by 1003.2, as we are purposely avoiding
terminal interfaces and concentrating on shell interfaces from application
programs, such as through...

 >popen...
 >
which _is_ being included in 1003.2.

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