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Thomas Forlenza <tforlenz@turbo.kean.edu> writes:

>Is there a URL or ftp site where I can download the current
>Posix standards?


You can order the POSIX.1b standard (officially called IEEE Std
1003.1b-1993; this book includes also all text of POSIX.1 and costs
114 USD) as well as the other POSIX standards directly from IEEE:

  phone:  +1 908 981 1393 (TZ: eastern standard time)
           1 800 678 4333 (from US+Canada only)
  fax:    +1 908 981 9667
  e-mail: stds.info@ieee.org

Information about POSIX and other IEEE standards is also available on
<http://stdsbbs.ieee.org/>, however unfortunately the full standard
documents are only available as books or on CD-ROM, not on the
Internet. Having access to the POSIX specs is certainly a good idea
for any Unix hacker.

Here is a brief list of some of the POSIX standards:

  POSIX.1          Basic OS interface (C language)
  POSIX.1a         Misc. extensions (symlinks, etc.)
  POSIX.1b         Real-time and I/O extensions (was: POSIX.4)
  POSIX.1c         Threads (was: POSIX.4a)
  POSIX.1d         More real-time extensions (was: POSIX.4b)
  POSIX.1e         Security extensions, ACLs (was: POSIX.6)
  POSIX.1f         Transparent network file access (was: POSIX.8)
  POSIX.1g         Protocol independent communication, sockets (was: POSIX.12)
  POSIX.1i         Technical corrections to POSIX.1b
  POSIX.2          Shell and common utility programs (date, ln, ...)
  POSIX.3          Test methods
  POSIX.5          ADA binding to POSIX.1
  POSIX.7          System administration
  POSIX.9          FORTRAN-77 binding to POSIX.1
  POSIX.15         Supercomputing extensions (checkpoint/recovery, etc.)

and a few others which are still in early draft stage. If you want to
follow progress on POSIX standardization, you should follow the
announcements in the moderated USENET group comp.std.unix.

ISO has also published POSIX.1 as ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990. ISO and IEEE
will soon publish the new revision of this standard: ISO/IEC
9945-1:1996. This will be the new 1996 revision of POSIX.1 which will
contain in one single standard POSIX.1(1990), POSIX.1b(1993),
POSIX.1c(1995), and POSIX.1i(1995) (perhaps also POSIX.1a(1996) if it
gets ready in time). If you want to order the POSIX standard but are
not in a hurry, may be it is a good idea to wait a few months until
ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 is available. All differences between
POSIX.1(1990) and POSIX.1(1996) will be marked by bars at the page
margins.

Markus

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Thomas Forlenza (tforlenz@turbo.kean.edu) wrote:
: Is there a URL or ftp site where I can download the current
: Posix standards?

Note also the newsgroup comp.std.unix. Posix is a standard for unix.

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In article <3162AB41.5E2D@turbo.kean.edu>,
Thomas Forlenza  <tforlenz@turbo.kean.edu> wrote:
>Is there a URL or ftp site where I can download the current
>Posix standards?

Descriptions of the standards, but not the standards themselves.
IEEE makes money by selling the standards as paper books.
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