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To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: posix compliance
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On 28 Feb 2012, at 11:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 
> sorry to be a pain.
> 
> Are we talking 10%, 50%, 90% complete?


Depending on how you weight the various items of POSIX compliance,
a finger-in-the-air guess would be around 90%, but I think only
the -hackers list can give you a good answer.

It's probably instructive to compare to various other OSes level
of compliance as well (for your presentation).

- Mark