Xah Lee's Unixism

[Rupert Pigott]

Alan Balmer wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:28:16 +0100, Rupert Pigott
> <roo at try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Alan Balmer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Huh? Linux is only recently paying some attention to the POSIX
>>>standards. I don't know the current level of compliance, though I'm
>>
>>Nah, that's been going on since at least 1994 when I installed it.
>>
> 
> That's what I mean - it's been (and is still) "going on." It ain't
> soup yet., and only recently (imo) has it been taken seriously. I
> think pthreads were the defining point for me.

PThreads is considered to be a tar-pit by far wiser people than I,
so I can't blame folks for being behind the curve on this regard.

> It is certainly not the case that Linux was written by following the
> POSIX "recipe."

I think it's fair to say it was. As I'm sure you know : Back in the
early 90s you had two main flavours of UNIX, BSD & SYSV (still do I
guess). Where there was any disagreement Linux generally went for
the third flavour, namely POSIX...

The differences showed when you used a true BSD or a true SYSV box.
There also used to be quite a few references in the man pages and
includes. Maybe this has changed, it's been a while since I cared
enough. :/

Cheers,
Rupert