Re: Offtopic.

["Carlos Fernandez Sanz" <cfernandez@myalert.com>]

No offense intended, but it looks like some serious time with google is in
order.

----- Original Message -----
From: "xlp" <xlp@emtel.net.co>
To: <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: Offtopic.


> Hi, I am writting document in spanish about UNIX programming because I
have
> found that south american universities are focused on Windows, The
students
> and teachers think the computer science is Windows, they dont know others
> OSes, They dont motivate students to understand OSes internals, I dont
> understand Why the degree is "system engienering" if they dont know about
> memory manipulation, threads, procress, IO, debuggers, etc.
> Why study 5 year of engineering if they will work doing clicks and running
> 'wizards' ? Where are the south american researcher?, Where is the
curiosity?.
>
> I read a documentain that describe signals and It says there are 4 types
of
> 'signal handling enviroments': BSD, SysV unreliable, SysV reliable y
POSIX.
> What does that means? What are those 'enviroments'?
> How can I know which enivorement use certain OS ?
> What is "POSIX"?
>
> Also, I am trying to cover all UNIX-like oses in my documentation (HPUX,
aix,
> sunos, DGUX, *bsd, sco, linux), I'd like to know What is the best computer
> science-oriented way to call all those OSes? "Unix based OSes", "Unix like
> OSes" or just "UNIX" ?
>
> bye friends!.
>
>
>
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