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- Submitted-by: sp@osf.org (Simon Patience)
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- In article <1fh9nlINNgi6@ftp.UU.NET>, gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- > I was once involved in writing a procurement spec for the OS,
- > wherein the delivered system was required to conform to the
- > C standard, SVID, and POSIX.1, with conflicts among the
- > standards being resolved in favor of the one occuring first
- > in that list. While all the major standards (these plus XPG
- > and AES) attempt to be compatible, some contradictions arise
- > so some form of precedence needs to be established.
-
- What OSF does with the AES is to make it a superset of standards like
- POSIX, XPG etc, (assuming that conflicting standards don't prevent it).
- I would guess that USL does the same with SVID. This means that if you
- are AES (or SVID) compliant you are therefore also POSIX (or XPG, etc)
- compliant automatically.
-
- Simon.
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