From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 09:36:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B318E106566C for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8998FC0A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S32Qx-0004nU-Ti; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:36:30 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S32Qa-00029e-GL; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:36:00 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q219a00r076021; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:36:00 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q219a0VV076020; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:36:00 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bris.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:36:00 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Jens Schweikhardt Message-ID: <20120301093559.GB75987@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20120228102953.GA56305@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120229185347.GE3020@schweikhardt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120229185347.GE3020@schweikhardt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posix compliance X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:36:36 -0000 On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 07:53:47PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > Anton, > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:29:53AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > # I asked in question@, probably this is a better place to ask. > # > # Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially? > > Partially. BSD does not want to hide its heritage and we attempt > to not break existing code and scripts by silently changing behavior. > So in a few places you will find that the POSIX way is not quite the > BSD way. > > # The info here is a bit out of date: > # > # http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html > > For utilities, you might also want to check > http://people.freebsd.org/~schweikh/posix-utilities.html > which I started a long time ago. Many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423