From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EB826B7C for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:11:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3501C431E3; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:11:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560A0431E2 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:11:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB67280B2; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hydra.lemis.com (hydra.lemis.com [192.109.197.129]) by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192142635C7; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:11:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from hydra.lemis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydra.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E82913C07; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:11:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by hydra.lemis.com (8.17.1/8.16.1/Submit) id 45R1B0JP063014; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:11:00 +1000 (AEST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:11:00 +1000 From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" To: Clem Cole Message-ID: References: <20240626215309.XWtuefzk@steffen%sdaoden.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nE+Sx1OZXUxygIHI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Message-ID-Hash: PV6MMSTU4FVF2SGIFJL4OI7GGMWMENQ2 X-Message-ID-Hash: PV6MMSTU4FVF2SGIFJL4OI7GGMWMENQ2 X-MailFrom: grog@lemis.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Alan Coopersmith , Marc Rochkind , tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Origin of the name POSIX (was: ANSI (C) vs IEEE (POSIX) Standards Body Selection) List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --nE+Sx1OZXUxygIHI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 20:44:12 -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > rms had nothing to do with the name posix. I have no idea where that > comment came from. At the very least, from rms himself: https://stallman.org/articles/posix.html There's a reference to this page in the Wikipedia page on POSIX. > The p1003 committee for Ieee was the portable operating system standard and > at the time adding ix was the norm. POSIX became the term we all used to > refer to the work we doing. Rms was not involved in any way rms suggests that he was involved in the committee? Not true? Maybe a different, related committee? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --nE+Sx1OZXUxygIHI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQSaG4ICvM64RvkvCawi5vKQUHpCIwUCZny8JAAKCRAi5vKQUHpC I8hSAJ4vsdLVryq0KLp1GAHPxI6MW2mSYACfbDlEnp2y4EM1tcym5LXTfrfrZws= =MZ0s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nE+Sx1OZXUxygIHI--