mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) (11/06/90)
In article <812@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >[...] but would it be Unix without pipes? Heck, no! POSIX != UNIX. ...in fact, a purist would argue POSIX and UNIX are mutually exclusive. :) mjr. -- "I defy anyone to trick me. Men would have to be exceptional rascals to be as bad as I assume them to be." - Emperor Napoleon I [conversation, 1816]
gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk (11/08/90)
In article <1990Nov6.050658.11292@decuac.dec.com> you write: >In article <812@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com writes: > >>[...] but would it be Unix without pipes? Heck, no! > > POSIX != UNIX. > >...in fact, a purist would argue POSIX and UNIX are mutually exclusive. :) > >mjr. I would like to write a posix-compatible interface to C for the Acorn Archimedes, which is also not a unix machine. Could someone mail me with suggestions of how to find out exactly what the interface is please? Are there standard sample implemntations of a posix library? Something with stubs which a particular machine could fill out? Thanks, Graham <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) (11/08/90)
In article <sent.Wed.Nov.7.19:54:32.GMT.1990.via.CS.TARDIS> gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk writes: >I would like to write a posix-compatible interface to C for the Acorn >Archimedes, which is also not a unix machine. Could someone mail me >with suggestions of how to find out exactly what the interface is please? You can buy a copy of the POSIX standard from IEEE for about $40 US. They'll probably ship it abroad, since it's not a dangerous munition. :) I asked around before I bought my copy - it seems there aren't any machine readable versions lying around on the net. mjr.