From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/06 Message-ID: <4k52ds$3q4@solutions.solon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146061482 references: <828716998snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) reply-to: seebs@solon.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >"Certainly. In order for an OS to be able to call itself UNIX(tm) it must >be validated again standards such as POSIX and SPEC1170." >There is no official validation procedure for POSIX, and in any case >Unix does not have to support POSIX (almost no unixes to day are >fully POSIX compliant, I am not sure that *any* are 100% complaint). Well, then what precisely did the Linux people use to base their recent announcement on? I suppose the US government departments that require POSIX compliant OS's are just flipping coins? >I do not know what SPEC1170 is??? *sigh* It's a vast list of basically every function ever offered by a Unix like environment, in one vast spec. It's at least a few months old, and you can look it up in bookstores on CD-ROM. >Maybe you are using "validation" in some odd non-standard sense?? Maybe you're just assuming that C and Unix haven't develope since 1983? -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach. C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really! FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.] The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html