On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: > Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I actually fail to see a Linux industry standard in POSIX; > > Well at a minimum, it's certainly key to much of the development of > > POSIX-like Linux distro standards and other Linux standards such as > > those coming from LSB and OSDL. When Linux distro developers and > > LSB/OSDL/etc. explicitely do different than POSIX, the existence of a > > high-quality "precedent" standard is still key to the decision-making > > process. > > Yes, and since "a deliberate Linus decision" can override a POSIX > requirement in that process...
No doubt about that! > <http://www.opengroup.org/personal/ajosey/tr01-04-2005.txt>, > I continue to call POSIX a recommendation rather than an industry > standard in this context. > > I do not say that the POSIX specification is unimportant; it is > certainly a key document for Linux systems too. It is only the > conformance aspect which I put into perspective. Understood. Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
