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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:46:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: RFC: linux compatibility
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In-Reply-To: <000c01c03560$d1dfede0$1d01a8c0@BRAEMARINC.COM>; from tiberius@braemarinc.com on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0500

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj AT delorie DOT com]
>> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:30 PM
>> To: tiberius AT braemarinc DOT com
>> Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
>> Subject: Re: RFC: linux compatibility
>>
>> > 1.  POSIX compliant, if for no other reason than it's the
>> right thing to do.
>>
>> We already have this as a goal.  However, POSIX doesn't cover
>> everything.  Plus, Linux also has POSIX as a goal.  Downside: the
>> POSIX specs are expensive to purchase and not available online.
>>
>
>What about the "Single Unix Specification" at Opengroup
>(http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/un.htm)?  Does anyone know
>what relationship, if any, this has to POSIX?  It's free and online AFAICT,
>at least what I've looked at.

I actually have been using the documents at this site as the basis for
most of the work I do for Cygwin.

When they don't mention a feature, I usually use Linux.  Unfortunately,
it's not Red Hat linux, specifically.  Instead it is the cgf linux
distribution (tm) that I've built up over the years.

cgf

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