From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 30 15:07:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA08148 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:07:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08142 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:07:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA24160; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:00:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610302300.QAA24160@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:00:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <57iv7sy9xv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Oct 30, 96 11:21:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Terry Lambert 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.