Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Courtesy LWN.net  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:47

Standards like POSIX are meant to make life easier for application developers by providing rules on the semantics of system calls for multiple different platforms.

If operating system developers decide to deviate from the standard, but fail to document it, application developers can be caught unaware.

Postfix recently ran afoul of a situation like that; click below, subscribers only, for a look at the problem.


 

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