From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 11:45:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6338106564A for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:45:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8379A8FC12 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:45:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6345F5C28 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:58:43 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C0BD5C22 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:58:42 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F4CBD21.9040909@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:40:17 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> <20120228113213.GA56638@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120228113213.GA56638@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: posix compliance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:45:15 -0000 On 02/28/12 21:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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 The info here is a bit out of date: 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? As I understand it, the ticks stand for completed. There are other measures on there that say 1/2, or not started, or unable to until another is completed. The legend is closer to the bottom of the page.