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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V
Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:49:02 GMT
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ssriva1@umbc.edu (Sandip Srivastava) writes:
>A friend of mine who does quite a bit of C and Unix programming on Suns, 
>told me that SUN is moving away from a BSD based system towards System V.

Slowaris 2 is SysV-based, yes.

>And isn't Linux based on System V and POSIX compliant?

No, Linux isn't SysV-based.  It smells more like SysV in some areas,
but that doesn't make it SysV-based (which is proprietary).

No, Linux per se is not Posix compliant, and it cannot be.  Linux is
just a kernel only, but Posix compliance requires a complete system.
Actually, most of the problems arising out of Posix requirements are
in userland, not in the kernel.

Yes/2, there's at least one Linux distribution (Linux FT, if i
remember well) that has been passing the Posix validation suite.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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