Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I actually fail to see a Linux industry standard in POSIX; > Well at a minimum, it's certainly key to much of the development of > POSIX-like Linux distro standards and other Linux standards such as > those coming from LSB and OSDL. When Linux distro developers and > LSB/OSDL/etc. explicitely do different than POSIX, the existence of a > high-quality "precedent" standard is still key to the decision-making > process.
Yes, and since "a deliberate Linus decision" can override a POSIX requirement in that process <http://www.opengroup.org/personal/ajosey/tr01-04-2005.txt>, I continue to call POSIX a recommendation rather than an industry standard in this context. I do not say that the POSIX specification is unimportant; it is certainly a key document for Linux systems too. It is only the conformance aspect which I put into perspective. Gunnar _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
