Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:36:00 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posix compliance Message-ID: <20120301093559.GB75987@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120229185347.GE3020@schweikhardt.net> References: <20120228102953.GA56305@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120229185347.GE3020@schweikhardt.net>
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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 # The info here is a bit out of date: 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
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