2 Jan
2017
2 Jan
'17
6:05 p.m.
On 1/2/17 11:49 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 11:44:06AM -0500, Chet Ramey
wrote:
This came up on the Posix list. He found what I consider to be a bug.
The fact that Mac OS X passed the compliance test and got the branding
is not in dispute.
On 1/2/17 6:31 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Joerg is pretty smart, he's been around the block. There have been
multiple POSIX standards, just like there is C9, C11, etc. My guess is
MacOS got certified for an earlier standard and hasn't kept up. David <david(a)kdbarto.org> wrote:
That's pretty much exactly what it means. You have either found a bug or a
place where the interpretation is disputed. MacOS X is a certified Unix (tm) OS. Not
Unix-Like.
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 :-(