Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:25:37 -0500 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: posix compliance Message-ID: <20120228062537.31ac74c0@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20120228110323.GA56536@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20120228091746.GA48977@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <4F4CB09B.7010806@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120228110323.GA56536@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 +0000 Anton Shterenlikht articulated: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > >I'm putting together a small presentation > > >about FreeBSD for our IT support staff. > > > > > >Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially? > > > > > >The info here is a bit out of date: > > > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html > > Looking at the doc its not that out of date. Just check the 9.x > > column. > > Oh.. I see. I only looked in the top table. > > Still, I don't get an idea from the table of > how close FreeBSD is to full POSIX compliance. > I guess that's the aim, isn't it? The answer is rather simple. In your presentation you would simple indicate that FreeBSD is not fully compliant. You then have the option of making copies of all the pages referenced in the above URL and including them in the presentation packet you are supplying to the group or simply referring them to the above URL. Figuring out which is more impressive I'll leave up to you. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________
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