From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 31 14:19:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA12516 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com (fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com [199.184.182.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12509 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:19:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com by fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com (8.6.9/MSN-1.4) id QAA16069; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:18:27 -0600 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id PAA11725; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:48:35 -0600 Received: (jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id WAA24522; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:16:49 GMT Message-Id: <199610312216.WAA24522@right.PCS> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:16:49 -0600 From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jehamby@lightside.com, 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...) References: <199610312028.UAA00981@right.PCS> <199610312139.OAA26297@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199610312139.OAA26297@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Oct 31, 1996 14:39:25 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: >>> d. Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX, IEEE Std 1003.3-1991. >>> e. Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX.1, IEEE Std 2003.1-1992. >> >> Oh great, IEEE standards. Meaning that they aren't freely available. > > You aren't paying attention. > > These are NIST documents of the test methods for measuring conformance > to IEEE standards. > > The documents are not, themselves, IEEE standards. Uh, Terry, I suggest you go back and re-read that URL. These are IEEE standards for measuring conformance to IEEE standards. :-) >From the IEEE web site: 13210-1994 (ISO/IEC) [ANSI/IEEE 1003.3-1991] Information Technology-Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX(R) 64 pages [1-55937-494-2] [SH94251-NYF] $42.00 2003.1-1992 IEEE Standard for Information Technology-Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX.-Part 1: System Interfaces 456 pages [1-55937-275-3] [SH15826-NYF] $96.00 -- Jonathan