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Article #870Re: POSIX - Caving In Under Its Own Weight (Long)
From: James Buster
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:55
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:55
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Submitted-by: bitbug@netcom.com (James Buster) In article <1hdnejINNi74@ftp.UU.NET> jmcarli@srv.pacbell.com (Jerry M. Carlin) writes: >There is yet another problem: scope. I'm in the process of reviewing >1003.6 draft 13. Lots of good work went into it and there is lots that I >can agree with but my biggest problem is what they left out. IMHO 1003.6 >won't REALLY be complete until the year 2000, if then, given that I&A and >lots of other things are not currently in the standard. Even for what is >being standardized, my biggest problem is usability. For example, you can >have audit, but no commands (none!) that deal with audit. I thought the audit commands were being done as an addendum to 1003.2. Has this idea been dropped? Not to mention the fact (opinion?) that the interfaces specified by 1003.6 are so complex that verification and minimality of the TCB is extremely (impossible?) difficult to assure. Anybody know where I can get a copy of the Trusix spec? -- James Buster bitbug@netcom.com Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 97
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!not-for-mail From: bitbug@netcom.com (James Buster) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: POSIX - Caving In Under Its Own Weight (Long) Date: 25 Dec 1992 15:55:10 -0800 Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. Lines: 24 Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET Approved: sef@ftp.uucp (Moderator, Sean Eric Fagan) Message-ID: <1hg70uINNfvd@ftp.UU.NET> References: <1halvbINN9kd@ftp.UU.NET> <1hdnejINNi74@ftp.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net