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mandoc: add POSIX 2024
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@
mandoc: add POSIX 2024