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- Submitted-by: wicks@dcdmjw.fnal.gov (Matthew Wicks)
-
- In article <tsqu8INNpfe@ftp.UU.NET>, rchrist@uswnvg.UUCP (Ron Christian) writes:
- >Are
- >vendors who produce an ostensibly standards-based Unix expected to
- >report bugs back to the standards organization, or is it the general
- >expectation of the industry that bug fixes are value added by the
- >vendor and hence proprietary? Or, is there simply too much overhead
- >involved in reporting bugs in some reasonably structured fashion? If
- >vendors typically don't report bugs, how are standards organizations
- >(USL, OSF, Posix, X/Open, etc) made aware of them?
-
- It is necessary to differentiate between organizations such as IEEE (POSIX)
- and USL or OSF. In the first case, POSIX is just a specification, thus
- can't contain a bug of the manner you describe. Now of course the standard
- could be poorly specified and thus need changing, but there are official
- procedures for that.
-
- On the other hand, USL and OSF license and distribute code and thus should
- have some mechanism to allow their customers to report bugs.
-
- --
- Matt Wicks
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- wicks@fnal.fnal.gov
- 708-840-8083
-
- [ Also noted by gisle@ifi.uio.no, gwyn@moke.brl.mil, duke@cupid.UUCP -- mod ]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 87
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