From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 7 10:54:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA10358 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [207.67.176.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA10353 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:54:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by covina.lightside.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id KAA20120 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:54:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:54:27 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Welcome to POSIX... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I now have a copy of the NIST POSIX conformance test suite, or NIST-PCTS:151-2. Right now I'm running it on a Solaris box so I can be familiar with it before I try FreeBSD. I should note, though, two things: First, this is a test for FIPS 151-2, and not strictly POSIX.1 (it's POSIX.1 with a few additional tidbits). Second, this test suite does _NOT_ require TET to be installed, as Terry had mentioned. Perhaps I have a different test suite from what Terry was thinking of? If so, is that other test free as well? I received the test suite from Martha Gray at NIST, and as Terry mentioned, it does not yet have the proper legal notices for a more wide-spread distribution. However, as I've already discovered at least one Linux distribution which claims to be POSIX.1 and FIPS 151-2 conformant already (Linux-FT from Lasermoon), I'm going to hurry and post up my finding ASAP (it's only a matter of time before RedHat, e.g., get tested for POSIX, and we don't want to be left in the dust :-) -- Jake