Bug#948275: is Debian POSIX compliant?
Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> writes:
> I haven't found it mentioned in the policy manual, so I wonder if Debian
> is supposed to be POSIX compliant (unless noted otherwise)? IMHO a "it
> goes without saying" is not sufficient.
> Is it safe to assume that POSIX code works?
Simon provided the practical answer, which is that POSIX code will
probably work but you may have to configure individual tools in
non-standard ways if you need very precise adherence to the letter of the
standard.
The formal answer is that no, Debian does not attempt to pass any sort of
POSIX compliance test suite and is not attempting to be POSIX-compliant in
any formal sense.
I believe that this is the list of formally-certified POSIX operating
systems:
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
I believe EulerOS may be a Linux derivative; other than that, there are no
Linux distributions on that list. There's more information here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522413/why-are-most-linux-distributions-not-posix-compliant
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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