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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR standards (7)

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@ -174,17 +174,46 @@ Manual: Operating System API (Intel processors)" (Prentice-Hall
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
IEEE 1003.1-1990 part 1, aka ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990s, aka "IEEE Portable
Operating System Interface for Computing Environments", as elucidated
"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.
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 (POSIX.1b standard) describing real-time facilities
for portable operating systems, aka ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996, as elucidated in
"Programming for the real world \- POSIX.4"
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
@ -193,19 +222,51 @@ IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995 describing the POSIX threads interfaces.
POSIX.1-1996
A 1996 revision of POSIX.1 which incorporated POSIX.1b and POSIX.1c.
.TP
SUS, SUSv2
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.
(Developed by X/Open and The Open Group. See also
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
The 2001 revision and consolidation of the POSIX.1 and SUS standards
into a single document, conducted under the auspices of the Austin group
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;
@ -215,13 +276,21 @@ 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, and TC2 in 2004.
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 4.3.
upward-compatible from 4.3BSD.
.TP
V7
Version 7, the ancestral Unix from Bell Labs.
@ -230,4 +299,5 @@ Version 7, the ancestral Unix from Bell Labs.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR syscall (2),
.BR errno (3),
.BR feature_test_macros (7)
.BR feature_test_macros (7),
.BR standards (7)

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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR intro (2),
.BR errno (3),
.BR feature_test_macros (7)
.BR feature_test_macros (7),
.BR standards (7)

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.SH AUTHORS
Look at the header of the manual page for the author(s) and copyright
conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page!
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR standards (7)

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.SH AUTHORS
Look at the header of the manual page for the author(s) and copyright
conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page!
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR standards (7)

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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ definitions conforming to POSIX.1, POSIX.2, and XPG4.
Defining with the value 500 or greater additionally exposes
definitions for SUSv2 (UNIX 98).
Defining with the value 600 or greater additionally exposes
definitions for SUSv3 (UNIX 03; i.e., the POSIX.1 base specification
definitions for SUSv3 (UNIX 03; i.e., the POSIX.1-2001 base specification
plus the XSI extension) and C 99 definitions.
.TP
.B _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED

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.SH AUTHORS
Look at the header of the manual page for the author(s) and copyright
conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page!
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR standards (7)