[TUHS] MacOS X is Unix (tm)

David david at kdbarto.org
Wed Jan 4 00:06:15 AEST 2017


MacOS passes this except for the si_status test. MacOS uses a signed int there. I’m not sure what the standard says.

	David

> On Jan 2, 2017, at 3:31 AM, Joerg Schilling <schily at schily.net> wrote:
> 
> David <david at kdbarto.org> wrote:
> 
>> MacOS X is a certified Unix (tm) OS. Not Unix-Like.
> 
> Given that MacOS X is not POSIX compliant, I would call it a UNIX-alike.
> 
> Note that passing the certification tests unfortunately does not grant 
> POSIX compliance :-(
> 
> Try e.g. this program on Mac OS X:
> 
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/wait.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> /*
> * Non-standard compliant platforms may need 
> * #include <signal.h> or something similar
> * in addition to the include files above.
> */
> 
> int
> main()
> {
>        siginfo_t       si;
>        pid_t   pid;
>        int     ret;
> 
>        if ((pid = fork()) < 0)
>                exit(1);
>        if (pid == 0) {
>                _exit(1234567890);
>        }
>        ret = waitid(P_PID, pid, &si, WEXITED);
>        printf("ret: %d si_pid: %ld si_status: %d si_code: %d\n",
>                ret,
>                (long) si.si_pid, si.si_status, si.si_code);
>        if (pid != si.si_pid)
>                printf("si_pid in struct siginfo should be %ld but is %ld\n",
>                        (long) pid, (long) si.si_pid);
>        if (si.si_status != 1234567890)
>                printf("si_status in struct siginfo should be %d (0x%x) but is %d (0x%x)\n",
>                        1234567890, 1234567890, si.si_status, si.si_status);
>        if (si.si_code != CLD_EXITED)
> 		printf("si_code in struct siginfo should be %d (0x%x) but is %d (0x%x)\n",
> 			CLD_EXITED,  CLD_EXITED, si.si_code, si.si_code);
>        if (CLD_EXITED != 1)
>                printf("CLD_EXITED is %d on this platform\n", CLD_EXITED);
>        return (0);
> }
> 
> Jörg
> 
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