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From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, Steven_Snyder@3com.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of Posix compliance in v2.2/v2.4 kernel?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:40:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001113174011.A880@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88256996.00577D9E.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com> <3A101009.5F05DA18@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A101009.5F05DA18@mandrakesoft.com>; from Jeff Garzik on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:09AM -0500

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:09AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Also, from what I've seen lately on IRC and lkml, the Single Unix
> Specification ("SuS") is generally held in higher regard than POSIX; and
> when spec questions arise, kernel developers tend to check SuS before
> POSIX (if POSIX is checked at all).

POSIX is the law, but many things are not covered.
SUSv2 is a large collection of random stuff.
The Austin group now prepares a joint revision of POSIX.1 and POSIX.2 and SUSv2.
This is to be the next version of all standards involved.
See also http://www.opengroup.org/austin/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-13 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-13 15:54 State of Posix compliance in v2.2/v2.4 kernel? Steven_Snyder
2000-11-13 16:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-13 16:13   ` Jakub Jelinek
2000-11-13 16:17     ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-13 18:31       ` Gary Lawrence Murphy
2000-11-19 10:24     ` GOTO Masanori
2000-11-19 13:30       ` POSIX message queue passing (was Re: State of Posix compliance in v2.2/v2.4 kernel?) Jakub Jelinek
2000-11-13 16:40   ` Guest section DW [this message]
2000-11-13 20:28   ` State of Posix compliance in v2.2/v2.4 kernel? Ingo Oeser
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2000-11-13 16:09 Dunlap, Randy

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