[Sussex] A beginner's guide to GNU/Linux

[Geoff Teale]

Geoff Teale wrote:
> Geoff Teale wrote:
>> Argh!!!!! No,.    Please stop propagating this myth.  It's the worst 
>> kind of propaganda.
>>
>> POSIX is an API standard (or rather a collection of them).  By 
>> definition it does not mandate that any particular application is 
>> available, only that libraries and headers with standard names and 
>> standard functions are made available to programmers.
> I immediately retract that statement, VI was added to the utilities 
> (effectively the Shell API standard) and exists in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
>
> I should think before I speak...!

Carrying on my monologue.   You can see the current standard here:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm

This doesn't represent what was POSIX (an older standard) but the open 
groups evolution from that baseline and the Single Unix Definition.  
Having a brief look through it however I note I don't know a single 
Linux distro that would meet this standard.   Who for example has uux 
and c99 commands to hand in their terminal (yes there are equivalents, 
but not those commands)?  

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Geoff Teale
<tealeg at member.fsf.org>