Monday, December 02, 2024

Re: POSIX Inquiry

Thank you for the help with this!



From: Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com>
Sent: 02 October 2024 13:26
To: Katherine Mcmillan <kmcmi046@uottawa.ca>
Subject: Re: POSIX Inquiry
 
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 8:19 AM Katherine Mcmillan <kmcmi046@uottawa.ca> wrote:
>
> The Open Group's Core Program has nothing to do with POSIX, sorry for misleading.
>
> For POSIX certification, one must:
<...>

There are several mandatory POSIX APIs which OpenBSD intentionally
does not and will not implement**.
It's therefore clear that it cannot pass/receive POSIX certification.

Philip Guenther


** e.g. wordexp().  There was a discussion of why we won't provide it
on the tech@ list back in early April 2010.  Nothing has changed since
then.

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