Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:06:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) Message-ID: <199610292306.QAA22160@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3276877A.4DCD@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni S." at Oct 29, 96 02:38:50 pm
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> I was reading the pages from Redhat Linux and it said: > > "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has decided > to stop charging for their POSIX Conformance Test Suite 151-2, in hopes > that the POSIX standard may be more broadly applied. Red Hat Software > applauds the move, and has obtained the suites for consideration. We > would encourage all Linux developers to take advantage of this > development. Comments and questions can be directed to Martha Gray > <gray@sst.ncsl.nist.gov> at NIST." > > POSIX was one of the objectives behind 4.4BSD. Will FreeBSD follow this > tendency? Is it posible to follow it, or BSD is just too different from > POSIX? I have a copy of NIST/PCTS, and have run it against OpenBSD. I've had a bit of trouble with FreeBSD because TET doesn't "compile right up"; I blame this on FreeBSD, not TET. Note that having access to the NIST/PCTS is not the same as being certified. Certification still requires an authorized testing laboratory to run the test, and it only applies to a particular release level: the one tested. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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