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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- 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: 13 Apr 1996 08:53:09 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4knq1l$g6d@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.828757752@schonberg> <4kkbk7$hv8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829345812@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.829345812@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Chuck said
- >"With the same proviso, all of them. Of the many POSIX standards, only
- >POSIX.1-1990 and POSIX.2-1992 have usable validation test suites."
- >
- >Fair enough, but I meant national or international standards when I asked
- >my question.
-
- I fail to see a practical distinction between a national or international
- standard like POSIX.5 and an industry standard like XPG4. For both
- types of specifications a certified system provides behavior that a
- programmer can count on.
-
- X/Open branding is used as a qualification for procurement purposes
- by some governmental agencies and large commercial customers, just
- as FIPS certification is used by the US Government.
-
- >By the way, which Unices are 100% posix threads compliant (you ssaid you
- >knew).
-
- I said that several implementations claim to support POSIX.1c. There
- is no mechanism now in place for them to demonstrate conformance.
-
- The examples I had in mind (there may well be others) are Solaris 2.5
- and Digital UNIX 1.0 (aka OSF/1 4.0).
-
- >How does the POSIX testing deal with the issue of test profiles, Dave,
- >(Emery), can you clarify that procedure?
-
- What do you mean by a "test profile"? I'm not familiar with this
- usage.
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- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
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