From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (jazzswing.ncsc.mil [144.51.68.65]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27905 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:18:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id VAA27430 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:18:00 GMT Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.cygnus.com [205.180.230.5]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id VAA27426 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:17:59 GMT To: "Weaver, Mike D (N-CSC)" Cc: James A Griffin , Ramsey Wally Contr AFRL/IFEB , "'NSA SELinux Mailing List'" Subject: Re: Linux and Posix compliance References: <31A81CDD9175D411815100508BE32AA6062A882A@emss02m13.ems.lmco.com> Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 16 Jul 2001 14:14:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Weaver, Mike D's message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:02:53 -0600" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov "Weaver, Mike D (N-CSC)" 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. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------ -- 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.