On 25/08/07, Jordan K. Hubbard <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2007, at 4:40 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
> On 25/08/07, Terry Lambert <email@hidden> wrote:
> Certain command conform to standards, and for those commands, we more
> or less say we expect that they will continue to conform to standards.
>
> Which commands? What standards?
>
> The commands being the ones that The Open Group has decided fall under the
> "UNIX umbrella." The standard being that codified by UNIX03 (and possibly
> later revisions thereof).
Jordan,
As you know, I am well aware of UNIX03. However, this only applies to
Leopard, and has almost certainly necessitated some non-backwards
compatible changes to userland tools compared to Tiger. It might be
true going fowards, but it's not necessarily true today ;o)
-- Finlay
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