From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 23 Jan 2010 13:08 > > > That statement by Stevens is flat-out wrong. [...] > >> Was Stevens being overly cautious? >> > No, it was simply one of his rare mistakes. > In fairness to Stevens, the world before the advent of TTY job control was a quite different one to the world after it. If this contradiction of POSIX is anyone's mistake, it's the mistake of the people who updated the book to address POSIX. You are referring to an edition of the book claiming in its publicity blurb to have been updated for POSIX but published half a decade after Stevens' death, remember.
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