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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA749 ; Sun, 07 Feb 93 07:00:57 EST Xref: sserve comp.std.unix:1838 comp.unix.programmer:8067 comp.os.linux:25208 comp.unix.bsd:10867 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!not-for-mail From: ig25@fg20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix,comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Porting from BSD to POSIX (Linux) Guidelines? Followup-To: comp.unix.programmer Date: 4 Feb 1993 14:25:39 -0800 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 27 Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET Approved: sef@ftp.uucp (Moderator, Sean Eric Fagan) Message-ID: <1ks553INN2eb@ftp.UU.NET> X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Submitted-by: ig25@fg20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) (This really is a question for a comp.os.posix newgsroup, if there was such a thing.) [ Note the followup and crossposting, please -- mod ] I have the source for an application (fudgit, a data fitting package) which was written mostly for BSD, and which I want to port to a mostly POSIX.1 compliant OS (Linux), with a view to later using it on other machines which also support POSIX. Ideally, I'd like to eliminate BSD - specific code altogether. Are there any guidelines available for such a task? The POSIX Programmer's Guide is a start, but does not explain the semantics of the BSD systems well enough to do the conversion. Greetings -- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 56