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Re: GNU/Linux Naming
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GNU/Linux Naming |
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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:35:07 +0100 |
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"Noah Slater" <nslater@bytesexual.org> writes:
> On 07/12/2007, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Uh, no. The POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) specification
>> specifies at several levels what comprises a UNIX-like API.
>
> Thanks, I am aware of this. I think it a reasonable enough thing for
> me to suggest that when we have a specification that outlines an
> operating interface it can be taken to point to what is expected from
> an operating system.
> Given that you accept that statement it's not unreasonable to state
> that POSIX lays out the definition of what it means to be a *certain
> type* of operating system, namely a POSIX one.
Uh no. POSIX does not lay out what it means to be a "type of operating
system". It lays out what _interfaces_ must be there for certain
degrees of POSIX compliancy. It does not require the embodiment of
those interfaces to run under the name "operating system".
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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