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OBJECTION Part I, Section 4.0, Page 13, Lines 84-86
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The definition of PCTS shall be a conforming application
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is too vauge.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Add the following to this paragraph:
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The PCTS shall be a "Strictly Conforming POSIX Application".
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If the PCTS requires a certain environment available on the
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target system, it shall be possible to create that environment
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using a Strictly Conforming POSIX.1 Application. If such an
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application is required, then the PCTS shall include such an
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application.
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Environment includes the presence of a named file protected in
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a certain way, the presence and contents of any directory or file
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hierarchy...
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OBJECTION Part I, Section 5.0, Page 14, Line 107
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Specification of software requirements is too vauge.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Add the following to this line:
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The specification of software requirements necessary to execute
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the PCTS shall be confined to an environment that may be created
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using a PCTS supplied Strictly Conforming POSIX.1 Application.
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OBJECTION Part I, Section 5.0, Page 14, Lines 109-110
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Description of procedure to transfer PCTS to target system is
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too open ended.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Add the following to this line:
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If the PCTS requires a transfer to the target system. The
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procedure used to transfer the PCTS shall be a Strictly
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Conforming POSIX.1 Application supplied with the PCTS. All
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PCTS's shall be transferable from the development system to the
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target system. All PCTS's must contain this documentation and
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the corresponding Strictly Conforming POSIX.1 Application
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necessary to transfer the PCTS.
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OBJECTION Part I, Section 10.0, Page 22, Lines 301-303
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A result code of FAIL should not be possible for an extended
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assertion.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Change the table as follows:
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For required feature extended assertions, permissable result
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codes shall be limited to PASS or UNTESTED.
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For optional feature extended assertions, permissable result
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codes shall be limited to PASS, UNSUPPORTED, or UNTESTED.
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It shall not be possible to FAIL an extended assertion. The
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POSIX.3 Draft has made a very clear distinction between base
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assertions, and extended assertions. Base assertions shall be
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tested and are infact testable. Extended assertions which do
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not require a test should not effect an implementations ability
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to acheive complience.
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Since assertions are classified as extended assertions when the
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assertion is not testable, failing such a test should not be
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possible and should not effect an implementations ability to
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acheive compliance.
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OBJECTION Part I, Section 13.0, Page 26, Lines 365-367
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The result code of an extended assertion should have no
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bearing on an implementations designation as compliant.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Remove lines 365-368 from this document.
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The POSIX.3 Draft has made a very clear distinction between base
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assertions, and extended assertions. Base assertions shall be
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tested and are infact testable. Extended assertions which do
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not require a test should not effect an implementations ability
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to acheive complience.
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Since assertions are classified as extended assertions when the
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assertion is not testable, failing such a test should not be
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possible and should not effect an implementations ability to
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acheive compliance.
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OBJECTION Part I, Section 8.0, Page 19, Line 215
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Specification of setup procedures and effort is too vauge.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Add the following to this line:
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If testing of the assertion requires setup procedures or effort
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on the part of the testor that is not possible to acheive using
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a Strictly Conforming POSIX.1 Application, then the assertion
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shall not be considered an assertion, base assertion, or an
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extended assertion. If a PCTS attempts to test such an
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assertion, the results of the test shall not affect the
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implementations conformance/compliance and no record of the test
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shall appear in any PCTS output.
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OBJECTION Part II, Section 1.2.1, Page 2,3, Lines 27-47
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This section places an unacceptable burden on an implementation.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Add the following to this section:
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If testing an assertion requires that an operational environment
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be created which requires the target system to provide
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functionality which is beyond the scope of POSIX.1, that
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assertion shall be declared a "non-assertion" which by
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definition is UNTESTABLE and can not be used to determine
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an implementations compliance.
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Under no circumstances should it be permissible to require a
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target system which is claiming POSIX.1 complience to provide
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additional features outside the scope of POSIX.1. To do this
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would place an unacceptable burden on those implementations that
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are hosted, or are designed in clean room conditions in
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accordance with the documented POSIX.1 standard.
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It shall be possible to fully test an implementation that only
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provides those features described in POSIX.1. Such a system
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shall be a compliant system.
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If an implementation choses to support additional features which
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are outside the scope of POSIX.1, but if implemented would allow
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the testing of a previously UNTESTABLE assertion, then the
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assertion may be tested as an extended assertion. The results
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of any such assertion test shall have no impact on an
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implementations ability to acheive compliance.
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If testing of the assertion requires setup procedures or effort
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on the part of the testor that is not possible to acheive using
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a Strictly Conforming POSIX.1 Application, then the assertion
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shall not be considered an assertion, base assertion, or an
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extended assertion. If a PCTS attempts to test such an
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assertion, the results of the test shall not affect the
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implementations conformance/compliance and no record of the test
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shall appear in any PCTS output.
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The rationale used to arrive at the current draft of this
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section is flawed. It does not consider hosted implementations
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or implementations developed under clean room conditions. The
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rationale assumes that PCTS's will be targeted at a limited set
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of implementations where the required facilities could be
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provided in a standard way. This assumes that all POSIX.1
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implementations are acheived by having a vendor modify its
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current UNIX product such that it supports the required POSIX.1
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facilities. The target system support facility would be
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provided by the underlying AT&T derived UNIX system. Not all
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implementations of POSIX.1 are derived from AT&T source code, or
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are acheived my modifying an existing UNIX system. Clean room
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implementations of POSIX where the only documentation is the
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POSIX.1 standard must be addressed. The only way to adequetly
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address these systems is to allow an implementation that only
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implements those facilities documented in POSIX.1 to be
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considered as a POSIX.1 compliant system. It would be improper
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for this document to demand that UNIX like support facilities
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are needed in order to implement POSIX.1.
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OBJECTION Part II, Section 1.2.1.2, Page 3, Lines 45-47
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Providing a "target system support facility" should not be a
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requirement of a POSIX.1 implementation.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Revise this section.
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Any assertion that requires an implementation to provide a
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"target system support facility" that is beyond the scope of
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POSIX.1 shall be classified as an untestable assertion. The
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outcome of a test on such an assertion shall have no bearing on
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an implementations ability to acheive compliance, and shall not
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appear in any output from a PCTS.
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It shall be possible to fully test an implementation that only
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provides those features described in POSIX.1. Such a system
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shall be a compliant system.
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Failure allow a system which provides only those facilities
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described in POSIX.1 to be classified as a compliant system
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is unacceptable. If additional facilities are required, then
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the time should be taken to extend POSIX.1 to incorporate such
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facilities.
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There are many situations in hosted implementations, or in
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implementations developed under "clean room" conditions where
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the POSIX.1 documentation is the only documentation used to
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design an implementation.
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Approval of this section and section 1.9 would force many of
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these implementations to choose a PCTS based on its test
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coverage, and the demands that it placed on the target support
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facility.
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This document must allow for a PCTS that requires only those
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facilities provided by POSIX.1.
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OBJECTION Part II, Section 1.9, Page 7,8, Lines 208-228
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This section places an unacceptable burden on the target hardware.
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REQUIRED ACTION: remove the closed-loop requirement.
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It is unacceptable to require that a target system support
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multiple terminal ports. It shall be possible to build a
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POSIX.1 compliant system that has no asynchronous communication
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ports. It shall be acceptable to implement a POSIX.1 compliant
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system whose only "terminal like" input output capabilities are
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implemented as a layer ontop of the keyboard/display hardware
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commonly found on Workstations and PC's.
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OBJECTION Part II, Section 7, Page 158-184, Lines 2-709
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Terminals, and are not well defined.
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REQUIRED ACTION: Make all assertions in this section optional,
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or extended assertions.
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The note on line 6 of this section sums up the problems with the
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section. Major portions of this section are only valid when a
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terminal is an "asynchronous serial terminal".
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There are systems that whose I/O system consists of a disk,
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video controller, and keyboard input. It shall be possible to
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to classify such a system as POSIX.1 compliant.
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An implementation for such a target system would have to fail
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all calls to isatty() since its I/O system is not capable of
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supporting all assertions specified in this section.
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