Re: Re: Viability of Linux companies

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:02:11PM +0530, Amarendra GODBOLE wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:01:54PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> 
> > > Linux uses the clone() system call. This is not in POSIX. Why is it
> > > not embrace and extend ?
> > 
> > Simple - if the clone() call is not in POSIX but *is* in Linux, it does
> > not harm anyone who does not need it and who only uses POSIX compliant
> > stuff.
> 
> One more thing, who said POSIX is cannot be revised ? If this call is proved
> to be worth it, POSIX may, and will include it in its future revision.

POSIX may include win32 similarly. Your point ?

	-Arun