From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 8:52:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E981E37B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3BFqUk12584; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:52:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Mike Meyer" , "iT/Skolan DNS" Cc: Subject: RE: Posix / XOpen Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:52:30 -0700 Message-ID: <002201c0c29f$6a4d18c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <15059.9081.401135.958614@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also, keep in mind that today TOG has made it so that you have to include a Java compiler to even be branded and there's serious questions in my mind as to the viability of a so-called "UNIX Standard" that mandates a bunch of proprietary, commercial software to be included. I think if this keeps up that increasingly your going to see the POSIX and X/Open "standards' becoming increasingly irrelevant. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer >Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 8:15 AM >To: iT/Skolan DNS >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Posix / XOpen > > >iT/Skolan DNS types: >> To what extent do FreeBSD conform to Posix and/or X/Open ( XPG 1-4 ) >> standards ? > >As much as is practical. Getting branded costs money which no one has >been willing to pay, so there's no point in conforming to that >level. Conforming to Posix is of high enough priority that changes >that break conformance are rejected even if they increase the >usability of the system, but not so high that differences will be >fixed if they compromise the integrity of the system in some way. > > -- >Mike Meyer >http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ >Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more >information. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message