This standard is part of the POSIX series of standardized profiles for open systems. It defines environment profiles for portable realtime and embedded applications.
- Standard Committee
- C/MSC - Microprocessor Standards Committee
- Status
- Inactive-Reserved Standard
- PAR Approval
- 2002-06-13
- Superseding
- 1003.13-1998
- Board Approval
- 2003-12-10
- History
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- ANSI Approved:
- 2004-04-26
- Published:
- 2004-09-10
- Reaffirmed:
- 2010-06-17
- Inactivated Date:
- 2021-03-25
Working Group Details
- Society
- IEEE Computer Society
- Standard Committee
- C/MSC - Microprocessor Standards Committee
- Working Group
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POSIX_WG - System Services Realtime Working Group
- IEEE Program Manager
- Tom Thompson
Contact Tom Thompson - Working Group Chair
- Joseph Gwinn
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1003.26-2003
IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX(TM)) - Part 26: Device Control Application Program Interface (API) [C Language]
This standard is part of the POSIX series of standards. It defines an application program interface for controlling device drivers. Although it is based on the widely used ioctl() system call, the interface is type-safe and has a fixed number of parameters.