Re: Hurdish applications for persistence

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>    Well, if so, why do we even implement parts of POSIX?
>
> Because parts of POSIX make sense, some parts don't.  Why should we
> come up with our own variant of printf()?  Other parts make less
> sense, like getopt, which is a pita to use compared to argp (a GNU
> specific extention), should we not use argp just because `POSIX
> doesn't have it?'?  That is silly, don't you agree?
>
> POSIX exists so that if you use something that POSIX documents, this
> something will work the same way on all platforms.  It does _NOT_
> exists so that you're not allowed to use system specific hacks.

Right. We can give the users more then POSIX. But not less. We don't 
remove getopt, even if we use argp.

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