Re: Linux and Posix compliance

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:10:43PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> James A Griffin <agriffin@cpcug.org> writes:
>
> > One thing that I have noticed for years is the boot time message "POSIX
> > conformance testing by UNIFIX". The message appears just after the CPU
> > testing and before the PCI: Probe. UNIFIX is a UK company, IIRC. What
> > the results of the "conformance testing" are, I do not know.
>
> I think (and hope) they've finally removed this output. It never was
> true and is anyway completely outdated.

It's still there. And though it is outdated I bet it was once right.

> There hasn't been any formal POSIX testing done. The reason is
> simple: who'd pay this?

UNIFIX, as the message shows. UNIFIX is (or was?) a German Linux distributor, located in Braunschwieg (100km from my home, so I could take a look if no one believes in this ;)).

In 1995 or 1996 they sold a UNIFIX 2.0 distribution which was heavily modified not only to pass the posix.1 and posix.2 (IIRC) conformance test, but also too look more sysvish (I remeber yhey modified e.g. ps to take ps -elf for long output instead of ps aux).

        Christoph

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