diff --git a/man2/intro.2 b/man2/intro.2 index 5c0762088..712e90453 100644 --- a/man2/intro.2 +++ b/man2/intro.2 @@ -164,136 +164,9 @@ On these architectures, must be used. .SH "CONFORMING TO" Certain codes are used to indicate Unix variants and standards to -which calls in the section conform. These are: -.TP -SVr4 -System V Release 4 Unix, as described in the "Programmer's Reference -Manual: Operating System API (Intel processors)" (Prentice-Hall -1992, ISBN 0-13-951294-2) -.TP -SVID -System V Interface Definition, as described in "The System V Interface -Definition, Fourth Edition". -Available online at http://www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/ . -.TP -C89 -This was the first C language standard, ratified by ANSI -(American National Standards Institute) in 1989 -.RI ( X3.159-1989 ). -Sometimes this is known as -.IR "ANSI C" , -but since C99 is also an -ANSI standard, this term is ambiguous. -This standard was also ratified by -ISO (International Standards Organization) in 1990 -.RI ( "ISO/IEC 9899:1990" ), -and is thus occasionally referred to as -.IR "ISO C90" . -.TP -C99 -This revision of the C language standard was ratified by ISO in 1999 -.RI ( "ISO/IEC 9899:1999" ). -.TP -POSIX.1-1990 -"Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments". -IEEE 1003.1-1990 part 1, ratified by ISO in 1990 -.RI ( "ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990" ). -Further information can be found -in Donald Lewine's "POSIX Programmer's Guide" (O'Reilly & Associates, -Inc., 1991, ISBN 0-937175-73-0). -The term "POSIX" was coined by Richard Stallman. -.TP -POSIX.2 -IEEE Std 1003.2-1992, -describing commands and utilities, ratified by ISO in 1993 -.RI ( "ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993" ). -.TP -POSIX.1b -IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993, describing real-time facilities -for portable operating systems, ratified by ISO in 1996 -.RI ( "ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996" ). -For further information, see -"POSIX.4: Programming for the real world" -by Bill O. Gallmeister (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-074-0). -.TP -POSIX.1c -IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995 describing the POSIX threads interfaces. -.TP -POSIX.1-1996 -A 1996 revision of POSIX.1 which incorporated POSIX.1b and POSIX.1c. -.TP -XPG3 -Released in 1989, this was the first significant release of the -.IR "X/Open Portability Guide" , -produced by the -X/Open Company, a multi-vendor consortium. -This multi-volume guide was based on the POSIX standards. -.TP -XPG4 -A revision of the X/Open Portability Guide, released in 1992. -.TP -XPG4v2 -A 1994 revision of XPG4. -This is also referred to as -.IR "Spec 1170" , -where 1170 referred to the number of interfaces -defined by this standard. -.TP -SUS -Single Unix Specification. -This was a repackaging of XPGv2 and other X/Open standards -(X/Open Curses Issue 4 version 2, -X/Open Networking Service (XNS) Issue 4). -Systems conforming to this standard can be branded -.IR "UNIX 95" . -.TP -SUSv2 -Single Unix Specification version 2. -Sometimes also referred to as -.IR XPG5 . -This standard appeared in 1997. -Systems conformin to this standard can be branded -.IR "UNIX 98" . -See also -http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version2/ .) -.TP -POSIX.1-2001, SUSv3 -This was a 2001 revision and consolidation of the -POSIX.1, POSIX.2, and SUS standards into a single document, -conducted under the auspices of the Austin group -(http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ .) -The standard is available online at -http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/ , -and the interfaces that it describes are also available in the Linux -manual pages package under sections 1p and 3p (e.g., "man 3p open"). -.sp -The standard defines two levels of conformance: -.IR "POSIX conformance" , -which is a baseline set of interfaces required of a conforming system; -and -.IR "XSI Conformance", -which additionally mandates a set of interfaces -(the "XSI extension") which are only optional for POSIX conformance. -XSI-conformant systems can be branded -.IR "UNIX 03" . -.sp -POSIX.1-2001 is aligned with C99, so that all of the -library functions standardised in C99 are also -standardised in POSIX.1-1001. -.sp -Two Technical Corrigenda (minor fixes and improvements) -of the original 2001 standard have occurred: -TC1 in 2003 (referred to as -.IR POSIX.1-2003 ), -and TC2 in 2004 (referred to as -.IR POSIX.1-2004 ). -.TP -4.3BSD/4.4BSD -The 4.3 and 4.4 distributions of Berkeley Unix. 4.4BSD was -upward-compatible from 4.3BSD. -.TP -V7 -Version 7, the ancestral Unix from Bell Labs. +which calls in the section conform. +See +.BR standards (7). .SH FILES .I /usr/include/linux/unistd.h .SH "SEE ALSO"