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From: gates@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bill Gates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
Message-ID: <5570605@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 20:40:46 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>>Does HPUX support long filenames, symlinks, job control, sockets, NFS?
>>Is it POSIX compliant?
>
>Yes on all counts, depending on how you define "POSIX compliant" - there are
>many POSIX specs, and various different suites to measure compliance.  I
>don't know our full story, but I know that 8.0 contains a lot of code in the
>commands, libraries, and kernel for drafts 1 and 2.

HP-UX 8.0 will be base compliant with XPG3, POSIX 1003.1, FIPS 151-1, and
SVID Issue 2, volumes 1, 2, and 3.  Additional work has been done towards
conformance with POSIX 1003.2 (actually targeted at conformance with a
Federal FIPS published in the Federal Register which never actually was
adopted).  XPG4 conformance work has also been done in 8.0, but only in those
areas which agree with 1003.2.  8.0 won't be fully compliant with 1003.2 or
XPG4 due to the lack of final standards.

Bill