Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:18:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) Message-ID: <199610292318.QAA22199@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961029141323.2671A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Oct 29, 96 02:23:15 pm
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> > > 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. I am a well-known standards advocate (well, moderately well known in the communities producing the standards that applied to SVR4, at any rate). I acquired the NIST/PCTS by it being emailed in 16 uuencoded pieces to me. I am not comfortable redistributing it without the licensing restrictions that are intended for the public release, and I'm not prepared to have every Tom, Dick, and Harry deluging my source with email. When a final release is cut, I am assured that it, and the appropriate usage and licensing materials, will find themselves on the NIST WWW site; you should probably check there occasionally. Meanwhile, TET is a completely seperate piece of software necessary for running TET-hosted test suites... like NIST/PCTS. I've already suggested that someone grab the TET off of the X/Open server (where it is available for anonymous FTP) and check it into the FreeBSD ports tree. Bottom line: if you haven't bothered to get TET running, then you won't be able to use the NIST/PCTS code anyway, so there's no reason for you to have it. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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