Subject: Re: Unix 03
To: None <kamalrpr@in.ibm.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/11/2003 11:01:44
In article <OF94FFE51B.72191C2B-ON65256CE6.002283A9@in.ibm.com> you write:
> Unix 03 standard (set by Open Group) has quite a few changes/additions to
>unix user level commands.

I can't find anything post-UNIX-98 on TOG's main Web site.  The
"Company Review" version of UNIX 03 was mentioned on the Austin Group
list, but actually working out what it entails is ... tricky.

>I wanted to know if there is any effort to make netbsd Unix 03 compliant.

If it's anything like UNIX 98, it'll require implementing the XSI
extensions to 1003.1-2001.  NetBSD is unlikely ever to do this, since
XSI is fundamentally incompatible with BSD ps(1), echo(1), etc.

We do seem to be aiming for base 1003.1-2001 (with Corigendum 1)
conformance though.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/acorn26           <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/acorn26/>