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- [ These Standards Updates are published after each IEEE 1003
- meeting, and are commissioned by the USENIX Association.
- See Part 1 for contact information. -mod ]
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- An update on UNIX|= Standards Activities - Part 6
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- POSIX 1003.4 Update
-
- November 18, 1988
-
- Shane P. McCarron, NAPS International
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- 1003.4 - Real Time Extensions to POSIX
-
- In the past I have written some things about this committee
- that were pretty critical. I saw them as progressing too
- slowly to have the impact I hoped they would have. I know
- that nothing I wrote or said motivated them, but I am now
- happy to report the following: 1003.4 is almost ready to go
- to mock ballot! Apparently it all came together in the last
- couple of months, and they are now ready to ask a wider
- group for an opinion. They plan, at the January meeting, to
- go through all of their working papers and appendices,
- integrate them into the draft, and them submit it for a mock
- ballot before the April meeting. The results of the trial
- ballot will tell them how much more work they need to do
- before going to formal ballot. If all goes well, they
- should be able to ballot after the July, 1989 meeting.
- Given the way ballots tend to go, that would mean a
- completed standard in early to mid 1990. This is
- particularly exciting since previously dates in 1991 had
- been bandied about. Getting this standard out a full year
- earlier is astounding.
-
- Many people are probably curious as to what is contained in
- a Real Time standard. Well, many things that didn't make it
- into 1003.1, for starters. Here is a partial list:
- Asynchronous I/O, Shared Memory, IPC, Asynchronous Event
- Notification, Process Memory Locking, Timers, Priority
- Scheduling, Semaphores, Synchronous I/O, and Realtime Files
-
- Some of these are going to be particularly contentious. In
- particular Events and Memory Locking could be a problem.
- The mock balloting should flush out these issues so it can
- be cleaned up before formal balloting in the fall.
-
- The Watchdog committee contact for 1003.4 is Sol Kavy: He
- can be reached at:
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- Sol Kavy
- Hewlett-Packard
- 19477 Pruneridge
- Cupertino, CA 95014
- sol@hpda.hp.com
- hpda!sol
- +1 (408) 477-6395
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- Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 42
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