Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:00:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) Message-ID: <199610302300.QAA24160@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <57iv7sy9xv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Oct 30, 96 11:21:16 am
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> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> 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 :-) Within boundries, the certification is still valid for the base OS -- without the patches. If you make a new release, it must be certified. For FreeBSD, if Jordan were to pursue certification as FreeBSD, Inc., it would apply to the release certified only. The "snapshot" process is effectively a release process for uncertified kernels. Certification costs enough that most companies modify their process to *not* do things like "snapshots" to avoid the decertification: they use patches instead. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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