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Article #1013state of unix standards
From: Jim Mayer
Date: Thu, 28 May 1987 17:31
Date: Thu, 28 May 1987 17:31
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From: usenet@seismo.css.gov (Jim Mayer) I remember hearing at one point about a decision by AT&T and one or more other companies (Sun Microsystems sticks in my head) to move towards a single Un*x standard. Does anyone know what is happening with this? Is it all waiting on the "posix" stuff? Is there any hope of getting a single standard with: Long file names Symbolic links Reasonable networking Long identifier names in programs [ POSIX does not deal with most of this: it is strictly a programming interface standard. There are related groups dealing with most of these issues, however: see my semi-monthly posting on standards groups. -mod ] I have not been following the various standards efforts. I think it might be useful for someone who has to make a posting describing the major differences between the different candidates. [ Appendix A of POSIX is a diff between it and the SVID. There is no similar document for it and 4.3BSD. The X/OPEN people have submitted a document to P1003.1 on differences between POSIX and X/OPEN. There has been no direct comparison document between System V and 4.3BSD for several years. -mod ] -- (Grapevine) mayer.wbst (Arpa) mayer.wbst@Xerox.com (NS) mayer:wbst128:xerox (Phone) (716) 422-2496 (UUCP) rochester!rocksanne!mayer Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 38
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!std-unix From: usenet@seismo.css.gov (Jim Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: state of unix standards Message-ID: <8175@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-May-87 13:31:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.8175 Posted: Thu May 28 13:31:30 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 00:46:24 EDT Sender: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP Reply-To: usenet@seismo.css.gov (Jim Mayer) Organization: Xerox: Webster Research Center, Rochester, NY Lines: 34 Approved: jsq@sally.utexas.edu (Moderator, John Quarterman)