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> as normal for a Unix veering offtopic, did you know macOS is a certified Unix? https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3581.htm https://www.opengr
by AceJohnny2 2y ago
> as normal for a Unix
veering offtopic, did you know macOS is a certified Unix?
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3581.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3581.htm
As I recall, Apple advertised macOS as a Unix without such certification, got sued, and then scrambled to implement the required features to get certification as a result. Here's the story as told by the lead engineer of the project:
https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix-compliant-certified/answer/Terry-Lambert https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...
- autoexecbat 2y agoand Windows used to be certified for posix, but none of that matters theses days if it's not bug-compatible with Linux
- jorams 2y agoThis comes up rather often, and on the last significant post about it I saw on HN someone pointed out that the certification is kind of meaningless[1]. macOS poll(2) is not Unix-compliant, hasn't been since forever, yet every new version of macOS gets certified regardless. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41823078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41823078
- znpy 2y agolovely, i favorited that comment!