Alexander Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been following the mailing lists and just would like to get something > clarified. I noticed that Garrett has stated that Illumos will have full ABI > compatibility with Solaris. With the latest leak of Orcale's plans, will > this continue to be true? Also will Illumos be fully POSIX compliant? Is > there any chance that Oracle will break compatibility with Solaris 10 in > Solaris 11?
Unless oracle starts to move away from previous Solaris interfaces with their future development branch, it is possible to continue to support compatibility. I have already asked the OpenGroup for a free POSIX validation for Illumos. We will start to use the opportunity from the OpenGroup once we replaced enough closed source. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
