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- From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
-
- This is to announce the creation of the posix-testing mailing
- list. The intent is to provide a forum for discussion
- of issues related to testing operating systems for conformance
- to the various POSIX standards and proposed standards
- (IEEE 1003.x and whatever derivative standards may emerge
- from the NIST, ANSI, ISO, and so on).
-
- These issues include problems related to test suites in general,
- testability of various features of the standards, and
- portability of the test suites to the many very different
- POSIX implementations we expect to see in the near future.
- We'll focus on the test suites themselves, rather than on
- the standards to which they test (notably POSIX p1003.3).
-
- Where discussions stray into general standards issues, I
- will try to redirect them to the appropriate venues, such
- as the comp.std.unix and comp.std.c news groups and the
- posix-ada mailing list.
-
- POSIX compliance of applications is excluded from the scope
- of this group.
-
- I anticipate that much of the discussion will focus, for
- now, on problems related to the three generally-available
- test suites, the NIST-PCTS for 1003.1 and the IBM test
- suites for 1003.1 and 1003.2. The people responsible for
- supporting those test suites may find this an appropriate
- channel for distribution of bug fixes and announcements of
- new releases.
-
- Submissions will be collected at Mindcraft and redistributed
- in digest form. I reserve the right to exclude submissions
- that are in bad taste, contain proprietary information, or
- are outside the scope of the list as described here.
-
- Submissions go to
-
- posix-testing@mindcraft.com
- ({decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!posix-testing)
-
- To subscribe, send a request to
-
- posix-testing-request@mindcraft.com
- ({decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!posix-testing-request)
-
-
- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 karish@forel.stanford.edu
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 97
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