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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:49:02 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4leage$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4lce4k$flh@news.umbc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 ssriva1@umbc.edu (Sandip Srivastava) writes: >A friend of mine who does quite a bit of C and Unix programming on Suns, >told me that SUN is moving away from a BSD based system towards System V. Slowaris 2 is SysV-based, yes. >And isn't Linux based on System V and POSIX compliant? No, Linux isn't SysV-based. It smells more like SysV in some areas, but that doesn't make it SysV-based (which is proprietary). No, Linux per se is not Posix compliant, and it cannot be. Linux is just a kernel only, but Posix compliance requires a complete system. Actually, most of the problems arising out of Posix requirements are in userland, not in the kernel. Yes/2, there's at least one Linux distribution (Linux FT, if i remember well) that has been passing the Posix validation suite. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)