From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 8:15: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E7D337B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:15:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 34475 invoked by uid 100); 10 Apr 2001 15:15:05 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15059.9081.401135.958614@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:15:05 -0500 To: iT/Skolan DNS Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posix / XOpen In-Reply-To: <28931615@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG iT/Skolan DNS types: > To what extent do FreeBSD conform to Posix and/or X/Open ( XPG 1-4 ) > standards ? As much as is practical. Getting branded costs money which no one has been willing to pay, so there's no point in conforming to that level. Conforming to Posix is of high enough priority that changes that break conformance are rejected even if they increase the usability of the system, but not so high that differences will be fixed if they compromise the integrity of the system in some way. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message