karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (12/08/89)
From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) This is to announce the creation of the posix-testing mailing list. The intent is to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to testing operating systems for conformance to the various POSIX standards and proposed standards (IEEE 1003.x and whatever derivative standards may emerge from the NIST, ANSI, ISO, and so on). These issues include problems related to test suites in general, testability of various features of the standards, and portability of the test suites to the many very different POSIX implementations we expect to see in the near future. We'll focus on the test suites themselves, rather than on the standards to which they test (notably POSIX p1003.3). Where discussions stray into general standards issues, I will try to redirect them to the appropriate venues, such as the comp.std.unix and comp.std.c news groups and the posix-ada mailing list. POSIX compliance of applications is excluded from the scope of this group. I anticipate that much of the discussion will focus, for now, on problems related to the three generally-available test suites, the NIST-PCTS for 1003.1 and the IBM test suites for 1003.1 and 1003.2. The people responsible for supporting those test suites may find this an appropriate channel for distribution of bug fixes and announcements of new releases. Submissions will be collected at Mindcraft and redistributed in digest form. I reserve the right to exclude submissions that are in bad taste, contain proprietary information, or are outside the scope of the list as described here. Submissions go to posix-testing@mindcraft.com ({decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!posix-testing) To subscribe, send a request to posix-testing-request@mindcraft.com ({decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!posix-testing-request) Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com (415) 323-9000 karish@forel.stanford.edu Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 97