From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:12:12 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Do Interface specifications such POSIX or the LSB Still Matter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:13 PM, George Michaelson wrote: > once you have virtualized OS support embedded in a wrap like docker > why do you need the definition of the sysctl() calls as a spec? > ​Maybe -- HPC folks use UNIX/Linux but really don't want an OS between the HW and their application. And its not just the *.1 style system functions. Think SPEC1170 where we discovered 1170 difference interfaces, database file etc... that ISV had to know about to deal with a 'UNIX' application.​ And that was before we had things like fabric and messaging. Within the >>Linux<< (which 'never forked' like UNIX did) the test matrix is still huge for an ISV these days. > > LSB sort of works. Sort of. > agreed - hence my question. But is sort of RHish and its not clear it being maintained because people don't care. ᐧ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: