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- From: labtek@cs.yale.edu (Tom Griest)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 10:22:35 -0400
- Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
- Message-ID: <4klovbINNjv4@RA.DEPT.CS.YALE.EDU>
- References: <dewar.828757752@schonberg> <4kkbk7$hv8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4kkru5INN71j@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4kkru5INN71j@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
- >In article <4kkbk7$hv8@nntp.Stanford.EDU>,
- >Chuck Karish <karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
- >>In article <dewar.828757752@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >>>"You know, POSIX, Spec 1170, X/Open, that kind of stuff. POSIX is the one the
- >>>US govt. will not use Win NT because of, because it doesn't match the spec
- >>>they've selected."
- >>
- >>Incorrect premise: Windows NT does conform to POSIX.1 and the
- >>US Government does buy it as a FIPS 151-2 conforming system.
- >
- >It does? You mean under NT, I could, say, disable the console echo by making
- >suitable changes to a ``struct termios'', and pass it to tcsetattr()?
- >Or send a SIGTSTP signal to the foreground process group from the controlling
- >terminal? Wow...
-
- I know the Government is buying NT in quantity. Although I
- have not personally used either of these two Posix features on NT, both
- are documented in the SDK under the Posix directory.
- The major problem with Posix on NT is that you don't get Posix
- functionality and windows funtionality in the same process.
- But as far as running Posix applications, my limited experience
- is that they do work fine.
-
- -Tom
-