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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-08-03 06:13:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-08-03 06:13:56 +0000 |
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Added SEE ALSO referring to standards.7
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diff --git a/man1/intro.1 b/man1/intro.1 index 65b5d57ea7..3c8b72a038 100644 --- a/man1/intro.1 +++ b/man1/intro.1 @@ -256,3 +256,5 @@ and use a browser if you find HTML files there. .\" .\" Actual examples? Separate section for each of cat, cp, ...? .\" gzip, bzip2, tar, rpm +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR standards (7) diff --git a/man2/intro.2 b/man2/intro.2 index 06618bb41d..5c0762088d 100644 --- a/man2/intro.2 +++ b/man2/intro.2 @@ -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) diff --git a/man3/intro.3 b/man3/intro.3 index d9d185ca00..62d6e2fcdc 100644 --- a/man3/intro.3 +++ b/man3/intro.3 @@ -59,4 +59,5 @@ conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page! .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR intro (2), .BR errno (3), -.BR feature_test_macros (7) +.BR feature_test_macros (7), +.BR standards (7) diff --git a/man4/intro.4 b/man4/intro.4 index 0068cf41e7..599f38f581 100644 --- a/man4/intro.4 +++ b/man4/intro.4 @@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ This chapter describes special files. .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) diff --git a/man5/intro.5 b/man5/intro.5 index 792e4af0a5..b9973ff37b 100644 --- a/man5/intro.5 +++ b/man5/intro.5 @@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ and the used C structures, if any. .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) diff --git a/man7/feature_test_macros.7 b/man7/feature_test_macros.7 index 5e741c0c4a..242524f237 100644 --- a/man7/feature_test_macros.7 +++ b/man7/feature_test_macros.7 @@ -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 diff --git a/man7/intro.7 b/man7/intro.7 index b80759d837..2423231552 100644 --- a/man7/intro.7 +++ b/man7/intro.7 @@ -35,3 +35,5 @@ and miscellaneous other things. .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) |