Re: Linux and Posix compliance

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>]

"Weaver, Mike D (N-CSC)" <mike.d.weaver@lmco.com> writes:

> 1) NT V3.51 passed successfully the test for POSIX 1003.1 (at the time that
> was all that was complete)

That's the point.  Who cares about the old .1/.2?  All applications
are using features from the additions.  There is no such support and
this is why there is the exception for NT.

> 2) The tests do not cost a fortune since the IEEE still (I believe) owns
> them,

There exists no test suite for the current standard, leave alone a
free one.  Standard labs are working on updates but there isn't
certification offered yet.  All which is freely available is a test
for a subset for the old .1 spec.  This is completely inadequate and
the test suite itself is so full of bugs that it's not even funny
(bugs = assumptions made which are not part of the standard).  The
IEEE test suite is AFAIK directly and automatically derived from the
2003 standards which were not updated since the first release.

I've tried getting test suites and all you hear from the OpenGroup or
similar organizations is how much they want to charge you.

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