Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote:
> > Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Calling POSIX a "law" and calling it a "recommendation" are extreme
> > > ends of the spectum is you ask me. How about meeting in the middle and
> > > calling it a key UNIX/Linux industry standard?
> > This amounts to "a recommendation which many have followed".
> Sure, but my point is that standards like POSIX are more important than
> even that wording conveys.
It cannot have been exceedingly important to the people who wrote the
code in question.
The standard can also be viewed as a contract. But since those people
did not sign the contract, they cannot be held liable for discrepancies.
In fact, approximately nobody in the open source world did ever sign the
contract, not even the people who do care about fulfilling parts of the
specification on an informal level.
I actually fail to see a Linux industry standard in POSIX; the Linux
industry standard is some kind of compatibility with RHEL. The current
edition of POSIX is an AIX and Solaris (not even OpenSolaris) industry
standard. Otherwise it is used as a recommendation, with varying degrees
of respect.
Gunnar
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