On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:50:26AM -0400, Jim Rees wrote: > DENIEL Philippe wrote: > > on many aspects, knowing the POSIX standard and behavior is quite > important when working on implementing something like NFSv4. There a > problem occur : if I need information on NFS (whatever version) or > any "related" protocol (RPCSEC_GSS, ONCRPC, ...) I can easily find a > document that is the absolute reference to use. But what about POSIX > ? I must have missed something but I never see such a reference. Do > you have book references to provide me with about this subject ? > > The posix spec situation is confused because there are many different specs > published at different times, and the ones that are most important (like > acls) were never ratified as far as I know, so are still in draft form. > Originally they were ISO specs, which cost big money, which is why you won't > find them on the web. More recently I think the Open Group has been working > on them, maybe you'll find copies there: www.opengroup.org I think you want: http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/ You have to fill out a form but there's no charge. Of course you can also write little test programs and such to find out what other filesystems or platforms do. No spec is perfect, alas. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
