posix compliance

Jens Schweikhardt schweikh at schweikhardt.net
Wed Feb 29 18:54:15 UTC 2012


Anton,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:29:53AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
# I asked in question@, probably this is a better place to ask.
# 
# Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially?

Partially. BSD does not want to hide its heritage and we attempt
to not break existing code and scripts by silently changing behavior.
So in a few places you will find that the POSIX way is not quite the
BSD way.

# The info here is a bit out of date:
# 
# http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html

For utilities, you might also want to check
http://people.freebsd.org/~schweikh/posix-utilities.html
which I started a long time ago.

Regards,

	Jens
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