usenet@seismo.css.gov (Jim Mayer) (05/28/87)
From: usenet@seismo.css.gov (Jim Mayer) I remember hearing at one point about a decision by AT&T and one or more other companies (Sun Microsystems sticks in my head) to move towards a single Un*x standard. Does anyone know what is happening with this? Is it all waiting on the "posix" stuff? Is there any hope of getting a single standard with: Long file names Symbolic links Reasonable networking Long identifier names in programs [ POSIX does not deal with most of this: it is strictly a programming interface standard. There are related groups dealing with most of these issues, however: see my semi-monthly posting on standards groups. -mod ] I have not been following the various standards efforts. I think it might be useful for someone who has to make a posting describing the major differences between the different candidates. [ Appendix A of POSIX is a diff between it and the SVID. There is no similar document for it and 4.3BSD. The X/OPEN people have submitted a document to P1003.1 on differences between POSIX and X/OPEN. There has been no direct comparison document between System V and 4.3BSD for several years. -mod ] -- (Grapevine) mayer.wbst (Arpa) mayer.wbst@Xerox.com (NS) mayer:wbst128:xerox (Phone) (716) 422-2496 (UUCP) rochester!rocksanne!mayer Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 38