diff --git a/man2/intro.2 b/man2/intro.2 index d86fecba7..06618bb41 100644 --- a/man2/intro.2 +++ b/man2/intro.2 @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ SVID System V Interface Definition, as described in "The System V Interface Definition, Fourth Edition". .TP -POSIX.1 +POSIX.1-1990 IEEE 1003.1-1990 part 1, aka ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990s, aka "IEEE Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments", as elucidated in Donald Lewine's "POSIX Programmer's Guide" (O'Reilly & Associates, @@ -187,11 +187,38 @@ for portable operating systems, aka ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996, as elucidated in "Programming for the real world \- POSIX.4" 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 SUS, SUSv2 Single Unix Specification. (Developed by X/Open and The Open Group. See also http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version2/ .) .TP +POSIX.1-2001, SUSv3 +The 2001 revision and consolidation of the POSIX.1 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"). +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" . +Two Technical Corrigenda (minor fixes and improvements) +of the original 2001 standard have occurred: +TC1 in 2003, and TC2 in 2004. +.TP 4.3BSD/4.4BSD The 4.3 and 4.4 distributions of Berkeley Unix. 4.4BSD was upward-compatible from 4.3.