Superseded Standard

IEEE 1003.1-2001

IEEE Standard for IEEE Information Technology - Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX(™))

This standard 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. It is the single common revision to IEEE Std 1003.1-1996, IEEE Std 1003.2-1992, and the Base Specifications of The Open Group Single UNIX(TM)† Specification, Version 2. This standard is intended to be used by both applications developers and system implementors and comprises four major components (each in an associated volume)

Standard Committee
C/MSC - Microprocessor Standards Committee
Status
Superseded Standard
PAR Approval
1999-06-26
Superseded by
1003.1-2008
Superseding
1003.1-1990
Corrigenda
1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002
1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004
Board Approval
2001-12-06
History
ANSI Approved:
2002-05-14
Published:
2001-12-06

Additional Resources

Interpretation
1003.1-2001_interp.zip

Working Group Details

Society
IEEE Computer Society
Standard Committee
C/MSC - Microprocessor Standards Committee
Working Group
POSIX - Austin Joint Working Group
IEEE Program Manager
Tom Thompson
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Working Group Chair
Andrew Josey

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