On Sep 25, Mario de Mello B. Neto wrote > I am a Linux user and I need information regarding linux (debian,RedHat, > Slackware) and its conformance to IEEE POSIX standards, specially those > that Microsoft Windows NT is not compliant.
I'm nowhere near a standards expert, but I suspect most Linux distributions are in effect POSIX.1 compliant, or very close. [extracted from http://www.lasermoon.co.uk/ft2/FT2.html] | The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have made the | POSIX.1 FIPS151-2 test suites freely available and as such the kernel and | relevant libraries have been made Conformant and are already freely | available. These test suites can be found on Debian mirrors as project/misc/NIST-PCTS_151-2.tar.gz . You might one to check them out. On Sep 25, Britton wrote > From what I have heard, this could be tricky. It seems amazing, but the > IEEE, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided that people should pay to find > out about some of the standards it issues. Anyone know if this is still > the case? Probably. The development of standards by standards organizations is often financed by selling the standards. HTH, Ray Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
