May 2, 1987
9:54 p.m.
I thought the idea behind POSIX requiring X3J11 was that it eliminated duplication (and possible conflict) between X3J11 and POSIX. If POSIX isn't going to require X3J11, what will they overlay upon? K&R is the only other well known standard, and it's not only incredibly old, but the C library it documents is very incomplete even by 1978 standards. (I have a table I can send out if people are interested.) A lot of stuff was taken out of the /usr/group document because it was already in X3J11; does P.1003 really want to put all that stuff back in? Mark