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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 22 Aug 1995 13:35:33 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Lines: 31 Message-ID: <41cmf5$86h@sundog.tiac.net> References: <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <5s7t-3RzoRB@subloch.swb.de> <413eat$e94@agate.berkeley.edu> <413it4$jhs@sundog.tiac.net> <419mjv$q91@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <VIXIE.95Aug21181146@wisdom.home.vix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:836 comp.os.linux.advocacy:17834 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4933 vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) wrote: >>You won't be very happy to restrict all your doing to that minimal >>subset that is defined by Posix. > >On the contrary, I am very happy whenever I can do this. It means I can write >a source file and compile it on BSD, SVR4, VMS, WinNT, and OS/2. Very nice. > >Not all the features I'd like are present in POSIX. But they're finalizing a >"sockets" interface that will give me most of what's currently missing. > >If not for FIPS and POSIX, SVR4 would not have reliable signals or job control. > >Elegance and completeness was never POSIX's goal. You're right in that much. >-- Then I'd say that POSIX seems to be a minimum requirement, and a maximum for some types of programming. It also seems that POSIX is not an entirely satisfactory max... :) Do I gather that there is some sort of certification process, that it probably costs money, and that this process should therefore be ignored? -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX! Microsoft is prohibited from examining any packet containing data originating on any machine which I am using. (Not that I can stop them.)