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In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:59:29 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes:

>Bug for bug compatible back to the 1970s, right? :-)

No, till the last posix in 1989 or so.  Definitely not to the 1970s
as we want v7 c structs and x++ not the v6 ++x version.

:)

Laura