Re: questions following upcoming POSIX issue 8 release

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-06-10 11:19, Eric Blake wrote:
> (can anyone even think of software where a proposed
> wmemrchr() would be useful?)

I don't know of any.

By coincidence I just sent to this list a similar question about the 
utility of wcsftime_l, which POSIX hasn't bothered to standardize. I've 
never fully understood ISO C's and POSIX's morbid fascination with wide 
character strings....

> -https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1824
> Is it worth a concerted effort to try and modify POSIX to acknowledge
> that there are two schools of thoughts on how a dangling symlink with
> trailing slash should be interpreted

That would be better than trying to change the Linux kernel, coreutils, 
Gnulib, etc., as the ship sailed long ago and it's not turning around.