Re: "conformance" vs. compatibility

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> I think it ought to be possible for the user building coreutils to say
>> what version of conformance they want - say, with a ./configure
>> argument - and this should override the unistd.h definition.
>
> That might be reasonable.  The coreutils maintainer should have the
> final say about this, though.  He's probably tired of the whole
> subject, though, so I suspect he won't make this change unless someone
> proposes a nice patch to do it.

That's accurate.  Thanks for writing so much on this thread.