alt Hacker NewsThe certification was always a bit odd, applying only to a configuration nobody would run in practice: https://www.osnews.com/story/141633/apples-macos-unix-certif...
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saagarjha • today at 1:22 PM
The certification also was kind of bad at actually checking that the standard interfaces behaved as they should.
Topfi • today at 12:56 PM
Reminds me of (technically) POSIX compatible Windows.
swiftcoder • today at 12:52 PM
The whole UNIX certified thing is a bit odd to start with, but those addendums are really just saying that because the UNIX compliance tests are thoroughly stuck in the past, a bunch of security measures (that users expect to exist on modern systems) have to be disabled to run the test suite.
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The certification documents read like the world's most abstruse bar trivia quiz...
"1.12 Threads
1.12.1 Cancellation Points
Question 31: Which C stdio functions have cancellation points that occur when a thread is executing?"
https://www.opengroup.org/csq/repository/noreferences=1&RID=...