From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 11:32:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7F6106566C for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FDD8FC13 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S2LHy-0007Bg-9L for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:14 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S2LHy-0004km-49 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:14 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q1SBWDgE056654 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:13 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q1SBWDgf056653 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:13 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bris.ac.uk using -f Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:13 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120228113213.GA56638@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD References: <20120228091746.GA48977@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <4F4CB09B.7010806@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120228110323.GA56536@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120228062537.31ac74c0@scorpio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120228062537.31ac74c0@scorpio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: posix compliance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:32:15 -0000 On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 +0000 > Anton Shterenlikht articulated: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > > On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > >I'm putting together a small presentation > > > >about FreeBSD for our IT support staff. > > > > > > > >Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially? > > > > > > > >The info here is a bit out of date: > > > > > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html > > > Looking at the doc its not that out of date. Just check the 9.x > > > column. > > > > Oh.. I see. I only looked in the top table. > > > > Still, I don't get an idea from the table of > > how close FreeBSD is to full POSIX compliance. > > I guess that's the aim, isn't it? > > The answer is rather simple. In your presentation you would simple > indicate that FreeBSD is not fully compliant. You then have the option > of making copies of all the pages referenced in the above URL and > including them in the presentation packet you are supplying to the group > or simply referring them to the above URL. Figuring out which is more > impressive I'll leave up to you. sorry to be a pain. Are we talking 10%, 50%, 90% complete? Does the above page include all tasks that need to be completed? In other words, if all tasks on the above page are ticked, does this aumtomatically give 100% compliance, or is it not that simple? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423