standards: Program Behavior

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1 4 Program Behavior for All Programs
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1 This chapter describes conventions for writing robust software.  It also
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· Non-GNU Standards           We consider standards such as POSIX;
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· Semantics                   Writing robust programs.
· Libraries                   Library behavior.
· Errors                      Formatting error messages.
· User Interfaces             Standards about interfaces generally.
· Graphical Interfaces        Standards for graphical interfaces.
· Command-Line Interfaces     Standards for command line interfaces.
· Dynamic Plug-In Interfaces  Standards for dynamic plug-in interfaces.
· Option Table                Table of long options.
· OID Allocations             Table of OID slots for GNU.
· Memory Usage                When and how to care about memory needs.
· File Usage                  Which files to use, and where.
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