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- From: bitbug@netcom.com (James Buster)
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- Subject: Re: POSIX - Caving In Under Its Own Weight (Long)
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 15:55:10 -0800
- Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc.
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- Submitted-by: bitbug@netcom.com (James Buster)
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- In article <1hdnejINNi74@ftp.UU.NET> jmcarli@srv.pacbell.com (Jerry M. Carlin) writes:
- >There is yet another problem: scope. I'm in the process of reviewing
- >1003.6 draft 13. Lots of good work went into it and there is lots that I
- >can agree with but my biggest problem is what they left out. IMHO 1003.6
- >won't REALLY be complete until the year 2000, if then, given that I&A and
- >lots of other things are not currently in the standard. Even for what is
- >being standardized, my biggest problem is usability. For example, you can
- >have audit, but no commands (none!) that deal with audit.
-
- I thought the audit commands were being done as an addendum to 1003.2.
- Has this idea been dropped?
-
- Not to mention the fact (opinion?) that the interfaces specified by 1003.6
- are so complex that verification and minimality of the TCB is extremely
- (impossible?) difficult to assure. Anybody know where I can get a copy of
- the Trusix spec?
-
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- James Buster
- bitbug@netcom.com
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- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 97
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