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From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: [TUHS] Does this mean Linux is now "officially branded UNIX"?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:11:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58c92160.ZlvHdWOkL83pBDeR%schily@schily.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170314232725.GC14659@naleco.com>

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Josh Good <pepe at naleco.com> wrote:

> On 2017 Mar 14, 15:14, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > On a real POSIX system, the following test program passes, but this currently 
> > only applies to Solaris, SCO UnixWare, recent FreeBSD and recent NetBSD:
>
> So IBM AIX, HP/UX and Mac OS X are wrongfully-branded UNIX systems?

Well, this is your wording...

The background is just that around 1995, The OpenGroup added the waitid() 
interface that has been introduced in 1989 by SVr4. At that time, the OpenGroup 
standard text was correct and interested companies could have implemented the 
interface correctly.

Jörg

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-12 15:04 Josh Good
2017-03-13 10:15 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-14 13:58   ` Nemo
2017-03-14 14:14     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-14 23:27       ` Josh Good
2017-03-15 11:11         ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2017-03-15 13:42           ` Random832
2017-03-15 14:14             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-15 15:16               ` Random832
2017-03-13 21:06 ` Michael-John Turner
2017-03-13 21:35   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 10:20     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-14 11:35     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-03-13 21:51   ` Josh Good
2017-03-14  0:11     ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-13 22:30   ` Arthur Krewat

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