On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:35 +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:

If you think it's a POSIX deficiency then logging a DR is probably the 
correct way of addressing that. And as I've said it's fine to decide 
that you don't care about what POSIX says on the subject but you can't 
simultaneously claim POSIX conformance. One or the other, not both.

I claim nothing. If you believe a man page should be fixed, please send
a patch to man page maintainer.

Have you tested the patch I sent ?

The goal here is to improve things, not to say you are right or I am
right. I am very often wrong, then what ?

This list is about linux kernel development.