On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I think that POSIX conformance, albeit user controlled, is desirable.
> If nothing else, it permits writing highly portable application code.
> And it is a selling point for NetBSD.

Indeed. I was heavily grossed out today when I learned what 
POSIXLY_CORRECT does for getopt(3) (=> "ls /etc/passwd -l" *yuck*).


  - Hubert

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