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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2850 comp.os.linux.misc:20379 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! Date: 27 Jul 1994 23:21:36 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 31 Message-ID: <316q60$k5h@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <mrg.774688509@dynamo> <311a16$eog@nntp2.stanford.edu> <jconklinCtJwMH.CKB@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <jconklinCtJwMH.CKB@netcom.com> jconklin@netcom.com (J.T. Conklin) writes: ] Chuck Karish <karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU> wrote: ] >What evidence can anyone offer that Linux or any flavor ] >of BSD conforms to a POSIX standard? ] ] No one can, because as far as I know neither Linux or any of the *BSD ] systems in question have been subjected to a POSIX validation suite. ] Unqualified claims of "POSIX compliance" should be taken with a grain ] of salt. Happily you are wrong; at least one of *BSD systems has had the Unisoft VSX suite (X/Open branding) run against it, without the dummy locale information. This still qualifies as a conformance test, although it was not followed through on the six (6) exceptions to get rulings that allowed certification. This WOULD be sufficient for a conformance self-statement to go out with the code. The same test was performed against Linux, but since I wasn't terribly interested in the results, I didn't bother to remember them (seems they did slightly better than the *BSD, since they could run with the locale test data). Anyone know how to get the NIST-PCTS (American National Institute of Standards and Technology POSIX Conformance Test Suite)? 8-). Anyone interested in paying certification fees? 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.