Björn Persson wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
I've forgotten the timing, but I don't think Posix had a full/useful
spec until well after Linux. AT&T's SVID spec (published for sysvr4
around 1989) would have been about right. Posix wasn't very complete
until 1995 or so.
On the third of July 1991, Linus Torvalds asked in comp.os.minix where he
could get the Posix standard. I suppose Posix has evolved since then, but
apparently an early version did exist. (He wanted it for the system call
specifications.)
Yes, there was some version of the Posix standard in that time frame.
It was just incomplete and described some mythical system that matched
no existing BSD or SysV flavor, so it was mostly ignored. Sort of like
the previous and current Linux FHS versions that just move things around
arbitrarily without sufficiently describing a portable runtime
environment for an application.
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