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From: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Job control
Keywords: AIX BSD SysVR?
Message-ID: <22963@gryphon.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 89 13:45:29 GMT
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In article <7145@portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
>>You misunderstood.  I commented on AIX PS/2 being very much BSD-like both on
>>the user interface level and on the library services level and on the system
>>call level (unless POSIX compliance required a change).  RT AIX which I had
>>used did not offer the BSD feel at least on the user level.
>This isn't what you said the other day.  You said that AIX-PS/2 was becomming
>more RT-like, and that you didn't like it.

AIX-PS/2 has been made to behave like RT AIX in many, many ways.  I disagree
with the design standards and the very concept of a number of RT tools and I
am not thrilled about PS/2 AIX being made compatible with RT on that level. 
I do not recall if this was even mentioned in the same article, but it
definitely was not mentioned in the same thought-thread, which dealt with 
RT's and PS2's BSD-feel as is exemplified by process/job control.

>POSIX 1003.1 compliance involves supporting a BSD-like signalling
>mechanism, a SysV-like terminal IO subsystem, and a number of
>special-purpose functions instead of ioctls with varying numbers and
>types of arguments, which were difficult or impossible to rationalize
>with ANSI C.

That's been done in AIX/370.  The compilers (386 and 370) support ANSI C, but
the system was written in the "standard" K&R C, just like sVr2 and BSD 4.3.
-- 
			"No regrets, no apologies"   Ronald Reagan

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