From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 14:30:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA03302 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:30:56 -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 OAA03290 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:30:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by covina.lightside.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA03276; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:23:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:23:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers , pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) In-Reply-To: <199610292026.VAA06287@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. Terry Lambert said not too long ago that he had installed the TET framework (required for the POSIX conformance suite) and the POSIX suite itself, but we haven't heard anything from him since. If he could post information on how to acquire these two items, I'd be happy to try running the test suite on -current, although I only have a 486DX4/100 at home, so if it takes an unreasonable amount of CPU time, I may have to wait and install FreeBSD on a Pentium at work. -- Jake