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- .ds Rh POSIX.3: POSIX Test Methods and Conformance
- .ds Au Andrew Twigger <att@root.co.uk>
- .ds Dt July 8-12, 1991
- .ds Lo Santa Clara, CA
- .ds Ed Stephen R. Walli <stephe@usenix.org>
- .ds Wd U\s-3SENIX\s0 Standards Watchdog Committee
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- .tm Subject: Standards Update, \*(Rh
- .tm From: \*(Ed
- .tm Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net
- .tm Organization: \*(Wd
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- .AF "\*(Ed, Report Editor"
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- .S 12
- \*(Rh
- .P
- \fB\*(Au\fP reports on \*(Su
- .P
- The Santa Clara meeting could in many ways be considered to
- be one of the less eventful of the recent \s-1POSIX.3\s0 meetings.
- .P
- Draft 5 of the \s-1POSIX.3.2\s0 document was distributed at the meeting,
- with
- the majority of the test assertions having been aligned with the text
- of \s-1POSIX.2\s0 (Shell and Utilities) Draft 11.
- This alignment was exquisitely timed to
- coincide with the production of Draft 11.1 of \s-1POSIX.2\s0,
- immediately
- rendering parts of Draft 5 out of date!
- Perhaps the documents can be
- synchronized for the next meeting,
- or the one after that,
- or ....
- .P
- The majority of the \s-1POSIX.3\s0 working group spent
- most of the meeting writing assertions
- with \s-1POSIX.2\s0.
- Having already dealt
- with the ``simpler'' utilities,
- some of the more complex utilities
- (make,
- pax,
- ls)
- were tackled during the week.
- The next draft should contain assertions
- for about 95% of the utilities,
- however the remaining 5% could take 95% of
- the time!
- .P
- The ballot review group for \s-1POSIX.3.1\s0 met briefly
- during the week to look
- over the objections received during the last ballot recirculation.
- Most of these had been
- resolved prior to the meeting
- and
- it was expected that the remaining items
- could be resolved by the end of August.
- Another
- brief
- recirculation ballot
- is expected in the Autumn,
- with possibly another standard being completed by
- the end of the year.
- .P
- The \s-1SCCT\s0 met twice during the week
- and
- finally approved some of the test
- method development plans submitted by the other working groups.
- The rumour
- that this was only in response to moans from the other working groups that
- the \s-1SCCT\s0 had rejected every plan submitted in the previous nine months is
- not entirely without foundation!
- Most of the other working groups,
- however,
- are getting geared up to produce test methods with their documents.
- .P
- Several members of \s-1POSIX.3\s0 spent time in assisting
- other working groups to
- develop test methods for their standards.
- Much of this time was spent in
- helping the working groups to understand how significant a task this is
- and in helping the working groups to develop a reasonable strategy for
- test methods.
- Some time was also spent in reviewing the work that had
- already been done by work group members.
- There seems to be an increased
- awareness of the problems
- and
- an ever improving quality to the test
- methods that the working group are producing.
-