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Other Portability Requirements

Draft MDC Standard

13 Other portability requirements

Programmers should exercise caution in the use of non-integer values for the Hang command and in TIMER events and timeouts. In general, the period of actual time which elapses upon the execution of a Hang command, or which elapses before a TIMER event, cannot be expected to be exact. In particular, relying upon non-integer 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 7.1.3.10 when processid is not their own $Job.

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