Keep in mind that originally POSIX and UNIX were different. IBM even documented the discrepancies between the two. AFAIK IEEE POSIX has been swallowed by the successor to X/OPEN and you now only need a single certification, but that wasn't the case at the time of the original MVSOE.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 11:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Bad History (was: "make" question) On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:58:15 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > > ... I would pick gmake 9/10 because it's pervasive and more >portable. If you work with open source software on z/OS gmake is a must >have. > I imagine: RFE: We want UNIX. IBM: Be more specific. Both: (After much deliberation) Single UNIX specification. And so it went. There's no formal specification of GNU Linux. Sigh. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
