Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:21:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dhagan@cs.vt.edu (Daniel Hagan) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSIX compliance? Message-ID: <199904072321.QAA25156@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9904070904100.30675-100000@vtopus.cs.vt.edu> from "Daniel Hagan" at Apr 7, 99 09:05:12 am
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> Does anyone know what areas of POSIX FreeBSD is not compliant with? This > is apparently an important issue to some of the professors here at Va. > Tech. Since POSIX is a registered trademark, and use of that trademark requires certification, there aren't any currently shipping free OS's that are technically capable of being called "POSIX compliant". Like the old "NT 3.0p3 on Compaq Proliant hardware" C2 ceritifcation, there is a certified version of Linux, but AFAIK, the ceritification has not been kept up to date on any modern versions. You may be able to find old copies of CDROMs or archives of that version, though. What you _probably_ want instead is to get a copy of the NIST/PCTS (National Institute of Standards / POSIX Conformance Test Suite) and run it yourself on a FreeBSD box. This will give you the results you would get from sending FreeBSD to a certification laboratory, without paging the testing and trademark usage licensing fees. Since it's also something that an CS department should already have a copy of anyway, it's probably lying around somewhere. If not, then you should download it from the NIST ftp site where it has been archived and made available for public download: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/posix_form.htm You might even find someone (with commit priviledges) willing to check in code changes to address any deviations you find. -- Terry "Yes, I _am_ better than the search engines" Lambert Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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