From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 12:54:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23194 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23171 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA05658 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:52:32 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA13943; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:51:10 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id VAA06287; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:26:24 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610292026.VAA06287@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:26:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3276877A.4DCD@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni S." at "Oct 29, 96 02:38:50 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)