Gavin writes:

>Ray asks:
>> Forgive my ignorance (and, of course, the bandwidth issue), but is LINUX
>> considered POSIX compliant?
>
>Yes, I think so.  Most of the documentation implies that it was the Posix
>spec. that Linus used as the design goal for the kernel.

Technically, I think that only SuSE Linux is "Posix compliant", meaning
that they actually paid to have the certification tests done. But I use
the Posix docs as my programming reference for Linux (both Slackware and
RedHat distributions), and have never had a problem -- even with tricky
areas like terminal handling.

>Not sure how much good "Posix compliance" does one in the real world these
>days.

It does a lot of good, for the reason mentioned above.

-- Bruce


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