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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit 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 X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/13 Message-ID: <4knq1l$g6d@nntp.Stanford.EDU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 147272238 references: <4kkbk7$hv8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> organization: Mindcraft, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >Chuck said >"With the same proviso, all of them. Of the many POSIX standards, only >POSIX.1-1990 and POSIX.2-1992 have usable validation test suites." > >Fair enough, but I meant national or international standards when I asked >my question. I fail to see a practical distinction between a national or international standard like POSIX.5 and an industry standard like XPG4. For both types of specifications a certified system provides behavior that a programmer can count on. X/Open branding is used as a qualification for procurement purposes by some governmental agencies and large commercial customers, just as FIPS certification is used by the US Government. >By the way, which Unices are 100% posix threads compliant (you ssaid you >knew). I said that several implementations claim to support POSIX.1c. There is no mechanism now in place for them to demonstrate conformance. The examples I had in mind (there may well be others) are Solaris 2.5 and Digital UNIX 1.0 (aka OSF/1 4.0). >How does the POSIX testing deal with the issue of test profiles, Dave, >(Emery), can you clarify that procedure? What do you mean by a "test profile"? I'm not familiar with this usage. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu