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Defect in XBD sys_utsname.h

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Subject: Defect in XBD sys_utsname.h
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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:38:09 +0100 (BST)
        Defect report from : Andrew Josey , The Open Group

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@ page 373 line 13189 section sys_utsname.h objection {implspec}

Problem:

Edition of Specification (Year): 2003

Defect code :  1. Error

The text describes the char nodename[] member as
"Name of this node within an implementation-defined communications
network."

This will require the PCD to document the network characteristics.
I could understand, an "implementation-defined Name of this node within...".

The wording changed between 1990/1996 edition and the present edition,
previously the term implementation-specified, which was a non term.

This would seem to make better sense here to be an "unspecified communications 
network"
that is we are not specifying here what that network is.

A corresponding change will also be needed in XSH p1557, line 48072.

Action:

Change "implementation-defined" to "unspecified"

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