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- From: mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Current Posix
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 11:08:04 +0200
- Organization: Markus Kuhn, 91080 Uttenreuth, Germany
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- Thomas Forlenza <tforlenz@turbo.kean.edu> writes:
-
- >Is there a URL or ftp site where I can download the current
- >Posix standards?
-
-
- You can order the POSIX.1b standard (officially called IEEE Std
- 1003.1b-1993; this book includes also all text of POSIX.1 and costs
- 114 USD) as well as the other POSIX standards directly from IEEE:
-
- phone: +1 908 981 1393 (TZ: eastern standard time)
- 1 800 678 4333 (from US+Canada only)
- fax: +1 908 981 9667
- e-mail: stds.info@ieee.org
-
- Information about POSIX and other IEEE standards is also available on
- <http://stdsbbs.ieee.org/>, however unfortunately the full standard
- documents are only available as books or on CD-ROM, not on the
- Internet. Having access to the POSIX specs is certainly a good idea
- for any Unix hacker.
-
- Here is a brief list of some of the POSIX standards:
-
- POSIX.1 Basic OS interface (C language)
- POSIX.1a Misc. extensions (symlinks, etc.)
- POSIX.1b Real-time and I/O extensions (was: POSIX.4)
- POSIX.1c Threads (was: POSIX.4a)
- POSIX.1d More real-time extensions (was: POSIX.4b)
- POSIX.1e Security extensions, ACLs (was: POSIX.6)
- POSIX.1f Transparent network file access (was: POSIX.8)
- POSIX.1g Protocol independent communication, sockets (was: POSIX.12)
- POSIX.1i Technical corrections to POSIX.1b
- POSIX.2 Shell and common utility programs (date, ln, ...)
- POSIX.3 Test methods
- POSIX.5 ADA binding to POSIX.1
- POSIX.7 System administration
- POSIX.9 FORTRAN-77 binding to POSIX.1
- POSIX.15 Supercomputing extensions (checkpoint/recovery, etc.)
-
- and a few others which are still in early draft stage. If you want to
- follow progress on POSIX standardization, you should follow the
- announcements in the moderated USENET group comp.std.unix.
-
- ISO has also published POSIX.1 as ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990. ISO and IEEE
- will soon publish the new revision of this standard: ISO/IEC
- 9945-1:1996. This will be the new 1996 revision of POSIX.1 which will
- contain in one single standard POSIX.1(1990), POSIX.1b(1993),
- POSIX.1c(1995), and POSIX.1i(1995) (perhaps also POSIX.1a(1996) if it
- gets ready in time). If you want to order the POSIX standard but are
- not in a hurry, may be it is a good idea to wait a few months until
- ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 is available. All differences between
- POSIX.1(1990) and POSIX.1(1996) will be marked by bars at the page
- margins.
-
- Markus
-
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