On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:13 PM, George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:

once you have virtualized OS support embedded in a wrap like docker
why do you need the definition of the sysctl() calls as a spec?

Maybe -- HPC folks use UNIX/Linux but really don't want an OS between the HW and their application.

And its not just the *.1 style system functions. Think SPEC1170 where we discovered 1170 difference interfaces, database file etc... that ISV had to know about to deal with a 'UNIX' application. And that was before we had things like fabric and messaging.

Within the >>Linux<< (which 'never forked' like UNIX did) the test matrix is still huge for an ISV these days.

LSB sort of works. Sort of.

agreed - hence my question. But is sort of RHish and its not clear it being maintained because people don't care.