Information technology - Portable operating system interface (POSIX®) base specifications, issue 7
Scope:
The Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 1 The Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 2 The Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 3 The Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 4 ISO/IEC 9899: 1999, Programming Languages - C, including ISO/IEC 9899: 1999/Cor.1: 2001(E), ISO/IEC 9899: 1999/Cor.2: 2004(E), and ISO/IEC 9899: 1999/Cor.3
Emphasis has been placed on standardizing existing practice for existing users, with changes and additions limited to correcting deficiencies in the following areas: Issues raised by Austin Group defect reports, IEEE Interpretations against IEEE Std 1003.1, and ISO/IEC defect reports against ISO/IEC 9945 Issues raised in corrigenda for The Open Group Technical Standards and working group resolutions from The Open Group Issues arising from ISO TR 24715: 2006, Conflicts between POSIX and the LSB Changes to make the text self-consistent with the additional material merged Features, marked Legacy or obsolescent in the base documents, have been considered for removal in this version A review and reorganization of the options within the standard lignment with the ISO/IEC 9899: 1999 standard, including ISO/IEC 9899: 1999/Cor.2: 2004(E)
1.2 Conformance
Conformance requirements for POSIX.1-2008 are defined in Chapter 2 (on page 15).
1.3 Normative References
The following standards contain provisions which, through references in POSIX.1-2008, constitute provisions of POSIX.1-2008. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on POSIX.1-2008 are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards listed below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently valid International Standards. ANS X3.9-1978 (Reaffirmed 1989) American National Standard for Information Systems: Standard X3.9-1978, Programming Language FORTRAN.1 ISO/IEC 646: 1991 ISO/IEC 646: 1991, Information Processing - ISO 7-Bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange.
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