From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (jazzband.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.4]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28418 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id WAA04788 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:32:06 GMT Received: from ns.caldera.de (ns.caldera.de [212.34.180.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id WAA04784 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:32:06 GMT Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:30:57 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: James A Griffin , Ramsey Wally Contr AFRL/IFEB , "'NSA SELinux Mailing List'" Subject: Re: Linux and Posix compliance Message-ID: <20010717003057.A8279@caldera.de> References: <3B533733.BE3E2167@cpcug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from drepper@redhat.com on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:10:43PM -0700 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:10:43PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > James A Griffin writes: > > > One thing that I have noticed for years is the boot time message "POSIX > > conformance testing by UNIFIX". The message appears just after the CPU > > testing and before the PCI: Probe. UNIFIX is a UK company, IIRC. What > > the results of the "conformance testing" are, I do not know. > > I think (and hope) they've finally removed this output. It never was > true and is anyway completely outdated. It's still there. And though it is outdated I bet it was once right. > There hasn't been any formal POSIX testing done. The reason is > simple: who'd pay this? UNIFIX, as the message shows. UNIFIX is (or was?) a German Linux distributor, located in Braunschwieg (100km from my home, so I could take a look if no one believes in this ;)). In 1995 or 1996 they sold a UNIFIX 2.0 distribution which was heavily modified not only to pass the posix.1 and posix.2 (IIRC) conformance test, but also too look more sysvish (I remeber yhey modified e.g. ps to take ps -elf for long output instead of ps aux). Christoph -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.