Standards Conformance

Jason Smethers jason at smethers.net
Thu Nov 11 11:58:44 PST 2004


Are there any thoughts as to documenting what standards DragonFly is 
expected to conform to, and where and why these standards have been 
deviated from? e.g. POSIX, The Single UNIX Specification, etc.

What are, or are there any standards that DragonFly officially strives 
to support?

If I were to add this kind of information to the man pages in relation 
to say The Single UNIX Specification, whould these changes be accepted 
by the project?

Looking as the handbook it seems that there should be at least another 
two sections dealing with standards conformance. One should be in the 
users section which describes standards in relation to user command line 
utilities, etc., and one should be in the system administration section 
with similar content.

There should also be similar sections for standards conformance of 
system interfaces, library interfaces, etc. in a programmer's handbook.

- Jason





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