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 QAA27270 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:15:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id UAA28513 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:14:55 GMT Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.cygnus.com [205.180.230.5]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id UAA28509 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:14:52 GMT To: James A Griffin Cc: Ramsey Wally Contr AFRL/IFEB , "'NSA SELinux Mailing List'" Subject: Re: Linux and Posix compliance References: <3B533733.BE3E2167@cpcug.org> Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 16 Jul 2001 13:10:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: James A Griffin's message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:49:23 -0400" 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 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 It never was true and is anyway completely outdated. There hasn't been any formal POSIX testing done. The reason is simple: who'd pay this? POSIX testing is done by the certification labs which charge enormous amounts of money for this. The kernel people has done tests based on available standard tests occasionally. I've done for the C library quite some testing and wrote many tests myself. This still does not guarantee compliance, though. As for use in government and military. The current route seems to be to get for Linux the same kind of exception which exists for NT. NT does not conform to POSIX either and can be used. You might want to check your appropriate standardization bureau about the status of this. -- ---------------. ,-. 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.