From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Carlos Fernandez Sanz" Subject: Re: Offtopic. Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:29:38 +0200 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <01c201c23703$fcd03bd0$0b40440a@madcfernandez> References: <20020729082601.C896@nietzsche.metrotel.net.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org No offense intended, but it looks like some serious time with google is in order. ----- Original Message ----- From: "xlp" To: 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!. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >