A few questions
I have been following the LSB-discussions for a while now
and would like to contribute myself to this great project,
at least as a reviewing part. ( If I can bring in more than
that, shall be seen. )
Beside the LSB-web-site, my main sources of information
have been the freshmeat-editorials as well as the news-
archives on the debian web-site.
So far, I have seen two part of the LSB-specification-work:
1) The 'visible' <.../libref.html> part, which as far as
I understand it, is the bottom-up approach to verify
that all existing GNU C-Library Version 2-based apps
will continue to run.
2) The 'accessible' <.../spec/book01.html> part, which again
as I interpret it, will be base for the future document.
It's this document ( as of 10/3/1998 ) that I would like
to ask a couple of questions.
Q1) Chapter 1: Related Standards
What is the rationale for the choice of related standards ?
- Is there a reason to use POSIX.1-1990 as the base, and not
POSIX.1-1995 ?
- Is there a need to distinguish between SUS.v1 ( UNIX95 )
and SUS.v2 ( UNIX98 ) ?
Basically all of the previous is asking for clarification
about the (internal) priority given to POSIX.1 vs. XPG4 vs.
SUS.v1/2 ?
Q2) Chapter 6: Libraries
What is the intention for the structure of this chapter ?
What information should be given for example in the case
of <errno.h> or <signal.h>. Does the LSB want to make a
difference between the ANSI-C subset and the LSB-superset,
etc. ?
Q3) Chapter 7: Formats and Protocols
What is the planned highlight for this chapter ?
Q4) Chapter 9: Execution Environment
What does the FHS2.0 have to do with the execution environment,
i.e. shouldn't FHS allready be mentioned in chapter 2 ?
Q5) General: What is the planned procedure to come up with a
first 'official' draft of the LSB-Specification ?
Kind regards,
Viktor
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Viktor Ransmayr
E-mail: viktor.ransmayr@i-dial.de
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