Re: [TUHS] MacOS X is Unix (tm)

David &lt;david(a)kdbarto.org&gt; wrote: Given that MacOS X is not POSIX compliant, I would call it a UNIX-alike. Note that passing the certification tests unfortunately does not grant POSIX compliance :-( Try e.g. this program on Mac OS X: #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdio.h> /* * Non-standard compliant platforms may need * #include <signal.h> or something similar * in addition to the include files above. */ int main() { siginfo_t si; pid_t pid; int ret; if ((pid = fork()) < 0) exit(1); if (pid == 0) { _exit(1234567890); } ret = waitid(P_PID, pid, &si, WEXITED); printf("ret: %d si_pid: %ld si_status: %d si_code: %d\n", ret, (long) si.si_pid, si.si_status, si.si_code); if (pid != si.si_pid) printf("si_pid in struct siginfo should be %ld but is %ld\n", (long) pid, (long) si.si_pid); if (si.si_status != 1234567890) printf("si_status in struct siginfo should be %d (0x%x) but is %d (0x%x)\n", 1234567890, 1234567890, si.si_status, si.si_status); if (si.si_code != CLD_EXITED) printf("si_code in struct siginfo should be %d (0x%x) but is %d (0x%x)\n", CLD_EXITED, CLD_EXITED, si.si_code, si.si_code); if (CLD_EXITED != 1) printf("CLD_EXITED is %d on this platform\n", CLD_EXITED); return (0); } Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/