On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While adding a normative statement reference in chapter one for > specifications, I noticed the section on "related implementations" where > mention is made of the following: > > * BSD BSD 4.4 Lite version 2 (no URL) > > We really should get a URL for this.... anyone know of a stable > one off-hand. Also, these functions should probably get > documented first when we start the LSB 1.1 effort, since I'm > concerned about "code drift"; it's been a long time since BSD > 4.4 Lite, and the library interfaces may have changed in subtle > ways since then.
Agreed. > * GNU/Linux defacto standard http://www.gnu.org/ > > This is a bit too broad; if we mean "glibc" or "bash" we should > say so, and then specify exaclty which version we mean. > > I'd also just as soon avoid the whole GNU/Linux vs. Linux > religious argument if at all possible. Note that as far as I > can tell although baselib/libc lists "GNU/Linux defacto > standard", none of the symbols actually reference the footnote > number corresponding to it, at least on the verison that's > currently up at www.linuxbase.org. The only place that > referenes this is setresgid/setresuid in the usergroups > section. This is intentional. It is all of these things that we have to document in the LSB itself since there often isn't a real specification to back these up. Stuff covered by POSIX, SUS, et al is attributed to that standard so only left-over stuff would be attributed to this reference implementation. > * RPC & XDR RFC 1831 & 1832 http://www.ietf.org > > This reference is certainly wrong, since it's not an API > reference and never pretended to be. We should probably > reference the comp.source.misc Sun posting of SunRPC, or just > simply reference a specific glibc version for now, since that's > what we're actually using. I've been asking for 2 years for an API description 8-), but no one seems to have one. If we follow our rules strictly, we should yank all RPC related interfaces because of this. Stuart Stuart R. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Metro Link Incorporated South Carolina Office 5807 North Andrews Way 129 Secret Cove Drive Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Lexington, SC 29072 voice: 954.660.2500 voice: 803.951.3630 http://www.metrolink.com/ XFree86 Core Team Creative Applications Lab Chair - SIGGRAPH 2001
