From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 6 07:57:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15059 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053n18.san.rr.com (dt053n18.san.rr.com [204.210.34.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA15054 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053n18.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04339; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:57:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <36431C5F.BD0A8169@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 07:57:19 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-1101 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Horcicka CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Widely implemented subset References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A) this belongs on freebsd-questions. B) when you send your question to that list, keep in mind that it's impossible to answer this question without knowing more about your specific goals. Good luck, Doug Martin Horcicka wrote: > > Hi, > my question is not tightly related to FreeBSD but to documentation. > I certainly do know about attempts to make standard for unix programming > (POSIX, SUS etc.) but these documents tell what unix SHOULD look like > (...) and do not tell what existing systems REALLY look like. > Is there any document which sumarizes some widely implemented subset of > unix features? I think we all need something that tells us "If you use > function blabla you will successfully compile it (and it will behave > correctly) on the following systems (...) since their following versions > (...)". Is there any such document? > > Martin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message