m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) (03/07/89)
1) Is there a SVID test suite available from anybody, other than the one from AT&T? 2) Has anyone bought the NBS-PCTS test suite for FIPS 151 (posix)? If so, I'd appreciate comments. -- Mike McNally Lynx Real-Time Systems uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5 phone: 408 370 2233 Where equal mind and contest equal, go.
karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (03/08/89)
In article <5265@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) wrote: >2) Has anyone bought the NBS-PCTS test suite for FIPS 151 (posix)? >If so, I'd appreciate comments. I installed the NBS-PCTS here at Mindcraft last summer, and tried to run it. It compiles all in a batch, and many parts won't compile if your system doesn't completely conform to POSIX. The instructions are terse and the code, based on the SVVS, is somewhat idiosyncratic. Using our POSIX compatibility tools, we managed to compile and run the whole NBS-PCTS on a non-POSIX system. This gave us an early look at what extensions that operating system needed to come up to the standard. We've run it in parallel with the test suite we developed for IBM. This is a good cross-check, to show us which failures are real failures, which are due to problems in one test suite or the other, and which are due to differing interpretations of the standard. Several people I talked to at Uniforum last week pointed out that there are some bugs/errors in the NBS-PCTS. I'm sure there are a number of them in the IBM-PCTS, too. Both developers (Mindcraft and the NIST [was: NBS]) are willing and able to fix deficiencies in the tests. AT&T is more conservative about changing the SVVS, probably because they don't want to make already-certified operating systems non-conforming. Chuck Karish karish@denali.stanford.edu hplabs!hpda!mindcrf!karish (415) 493-7277