posix compliance

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 07:53:47PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> 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 # The info here is a bit out of date: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.

Many thanks

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