Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:16:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: POSIX TEST SUITE Message-ID: <199610170116.SAA04419@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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I now have a copy of "Official NIST-PCTS:151-2 Version 1.8, 10/1/95", the National Institute of STandards and Technology POSIX Conformance Test Suite. This looks like virtually the same set of test cases I ran against UnixWare 1.x and 2.x for Novell/USG, from what I can see, with only some slight additions here and there. Note that we *should* be able to claim "POSIX conformance" (*NOT* POSIX compliance or certification) if we pass this test suite with no test exceptions. If FreeBSD wants POSIX certification, then FreeBSD Inc. will still have to pay for a certification run at an approved testing laboratory. Obvoiusly, to run the suite requires a working TET/ETET framework, preferrably TET3, available from the X/Open FTP site in the UK. If you have a machine with a working TET/ETET (Test Environment Toolkit or Extended Test Environment Toolkit) and are working on standards compliance for NetBSD or OpenBSD, drop me a line. Otherwise, I probably won't want to hear you requesting a copy from me. 8-). The current test case TET script code and data I have from NIST does not have all of the riders, disclaimers, etc. that the final PCTS release is supposed to have. Because of that, I am unwilling to put this up for general FTP anywhere. When the final NIST release takes place, I would suggest committing the code to the FreeBSD source tree. In preparation, I'd like to suggest committing the TET code that the PCTS requires (documents are online on the NIST WWW site with exact version requirements) to the FreeBSD tree to support a commit of the PCTS test cases themselves and the driver framework they are in when they are officially published by NIST. Regards, 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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