Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:13 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: posix compliance Message-ID: <20120228113213.GA56638@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120228062537.31ac74c0@scorpio> References: <20120228091746.GA48977@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <4F4CB09B.7010806@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120228110323.GA56536@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120228062537.31ac74c0@scorpio>
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > 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The info here is a bit out of date: 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 Looking at the doc its not that out of date.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. sorry to be a pain. Are we talking 10%, 50%, 90% complete? Does the above page include all tasks that need to be completed? In other words, if all tasks on the above page are ticked, does this aumtomatically give 100% compliance, or is it not that simple? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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