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From:
Job Snijders <job@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: mandoc: add POSIX 2024
To:
Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
Cc:
Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>, tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:39:39 +0000

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On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 10:36:19PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hello Job,
> 
> i think your patch would be acceptable, but frankly,
> i'd prefer something more like the following.
> 
> 
> Job Snijders wrote on Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 06:51:09PM +0000:
> 
> > I didn't see an announcement for "Single UNIX Specification version 5"
> 
> Indeed.  I think the reason is that until about SUSv3 times (~2001),
> it was still common to talk about SUS and X/Open, given that until
> about that time, POSIX was a collection of various moving parts
> and SUS contained more than just the sum of all those POSIX parts.
> 
> But more recently, both "SUS" and "X/Open" have fallen out of use.
> The term SUS is hardly needed anymore because nowadays, the POSIX
> standard includes all the parts, and X/Open already merged with OSF
> to become The Open Group in 1996.
> 
> Finally, while people unfortunately defined multiple arguments for the
> same standards in the past, in which case collecting related arguments
> into paragraphs with relatively specific paragraph titles makes sense,
> this seems no longer needed for modern standards, as long as
> we refrain from adding unimportant arguments.
> 
> What do you think, is the following OK?

OK job@