<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">No comment on the rest of your claim, but this is a silly argument.<br>The standard says the same thing about at least fcntl.h, signal.h,<br>pthread.h, and ucontext.h, which clearly are useful.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek :). Perhaps I should not have assumed that everyone else was as familiar with the POSIX documentation; I figured that most readers would know that most pages say that.</div><div><br></div><div>But, that was the result of a string of many different searches attempting to find someone explaining why this was a good idea or why anyone would want to use it. I think in this case, it's accurate.</div><div><br></div></body></html>