From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 30 03:23:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA05918 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 03:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA05906 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 03:23:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id LAA00891 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:20:27 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:22:30 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id LAA15098; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:22:22 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) id LAA21978; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:21:18 GMT To: Terry Lambert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) References: <199610292306.QAA22160@phaeton.artisoft.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 30 Oct 1996 11:21:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:06:06 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <57iv7sy9xv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: Redirected to chat. > 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 What happens when you apply patches to a certified OS? Is the certification then void? Do Sun get each patchlevel certified because we run with loads of patches on our systems, does that make them non-certified :-) -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155