Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I'm just in the middle of researching the core of Freebsd (for want of a better term) so I can understand how to fix and create software and drivers. Can people clarify my understanding here? According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this

Re: Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? There are parts of FreeBSD that are deliberately BSD compliant instead of POSIX compliant, because this

Re: Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 03:21 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? There are parts of FreeBSD that are