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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:26:23 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co
Subject:   Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...)
Message-ID:  <199610292026.VAA06287@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <3276877A.4DCD@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni S." at "Oct 29, 96 02:38:50 pm"

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As Pedro Giffuni S. wrote:

> POSIX was one of the objectives behind 4.4BSD. Will FreeBSD follow this
> tendency? Is it posible to follow it, or BSD is just too different from
> POSIX?

It's not too far away.  I seem to remember that the NetBSD folks have
evaluated their degree of standard compliance (or was it
`conformance'?), and they don't look that bad.  FreeBSD is probably a
little more behind.

We need people tracking this down.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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