JSR for a gnu.posix or javax.posix API ?

[Alan Eliasen]

Adam Megacz wrote:
> Bernhard Fastenrath <bfastenrath@mac.com> writes:
> 
>>Is anybody interested to join an effort to write a POSIX API
>>for Java (originally for GCJ, later for Sun Java) and put it
>>through the JCP process?
> 
> 
> So that Sun can ignore it? ;)
> 
> C'mon, they yanked environment variables out of jdk1.2; I doubt
> they're going to let them back in along with the rest of the POSIX
> API... ;)

   java.lang.System.getenv() is back in JDK 1.5 beta 1.  Their documentation
doesn't show a "@since" keyword--perhaps they should introduce an
"@in-again-out-again" keyword.

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