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Other Portability Requirements

1995 Version of ANSI (Equivalent to Current ISO Version) of Standard

12 Other portability requirements

Programmers should exercise caution in the use of noninteger values for the Hang command and in timeouts. In general, the period of actual time which elapses upon the execution of a Hang command cannot be expected to be exact. In particular, relying upon noninteger values in these situations can lead to unexpected results.

Implementations may restrict access to ssvns that contain default environments of processes other than the one referring to the ssvn. Therefore, portable programs shall not rely on the ssvns defined in 7.1.3.9 when processid is not their own $Job.

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