Standard for information technology : portable operating system interface (POSIX) : base specifications. Issue 7 / sponsor, Portable Applications Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society and the Open Group.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

IEEE Xplore (Online service)

IEEE Computer Society. Portable Applications Standards Committee.

Open Group (Reading, England)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Series:

IEEE Std

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

POSIX (Computer software standard).

Information technology--Standards.

Information technology.

Operating systems (Computers)--Standards.

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlvi, 3825 pages)

Other Title:

Portable operating system interface (POSIX) : base specifications. Issue 7

Base specifications. Issue 7

IEEE Std 1003.1-2008.

Place of Publication:

New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Abstract: POSIX. 1-2008 is simultaneously IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 and The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications, Issue 7. POSIX. 1-2008 defines a standard operating system interface and environment, including a command interpreter (or shell₊), and common utility programs to support applications portability at the source code level. POSIX. 1-2008 is intended to be used by both application developers and system implementors and comprises four major components (each in an associated volume): General terms, concepts, and interfaces common to all volumes of this standard, including utility conventions and C-language header definitions, are included in the Base Definitions volume. Definitions for system service functions and subroutines, language-specific system services for the C programming language, function issues, including portability, error handling, and error recovery, are included in the System Interfaces volume. Definitions for a standard source code-level interface to command interpretation services (a ₋shell₊) and common utility programs for application programs are included in the Shell and Utilities volume. Extended rationale that did not fit well into the rest of the document structure, which contains historical information concerning the contents of POSIX. 1-2008 and why features were included or discarded by the standard developers, is included in the Rationale (Informative) volume. The following areas are outside the scope of POSIX. 1-2008: Graphics interfaces; Database management system interfaces; Record I/O considerations; Object or binary code portability; System configuration and resource availability. POSIX. 1-2008 describes the external characteristics and facilities that are of importance to application developers, rather than the internal construction techniques employed to achieve these capabilities. Special emphasis is placed on those functions and facilities that are needed in a wide variety of commercial applications. Keywords application program interface (API), argument, asynchronous, basic regular expression (BRE), batch job, batch system, built-in utility, byte, child, command language interpreter, CPU, extended regular expression (ERE), FIFO, file access control mechanism, input/output (I/O), job control, network, portable operating system interface (POSIX), parent, shell, stream, string, synchronous, system, thread, X/Open System Interface (XSI).

Notes:

"IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (Revision of IEEE Std 1003.1-2004)."

"Approved 26 September 2008, IEEE-SA Standards Board."

"Approved 24 July 2008, The Open Group."

"Published 1 December 2008 ; STD95820 STDCD95820"--P. ii.

2 volumes in 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

CD-ROM version: Standard for information technology : portable operating system interface (POSIX) : base specifications. Issue 7

ISBN:

9780738157986

0738157988

9780738157993

0738157996

OCLC:

312429512

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