On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DJ Delorie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:30 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: RFC: linux compatibility
>>
>> > 1. POSIX compliant, if for no other reason than it's the
>> right thing to do.
>>
>> We already have this as a goal. However, POSIX doesn't cover
>> everything. Plus, Linux also has POSIX as a goal. Downside: the
>> POSIX specs are expensive to purchase and not available online.
>>
>
>What about the "Single Unix Specification" at Opengroup
>(http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/un.htm)? Does anyone know
>what relationship, if any, this has to POSIX? It's free and online AFAICT,
>at least what I've looked at.
I actually have been using the documents at this site as the basis for
most of the work I do for Cygwin.
When they don't mention a feature, I usually use Linux. Unfortunately,
it's not Red Hat linux, specifically. Instead it is the cgf linux
distribution (tm) that I've built up over the years.
cgf
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