POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a collection of IEEE standards for information technology.

POSIX.1

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.

• IEEE Std 1003.1 -2008
• The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications, Issue 7 [1]

POSIX.1b

Real-time extensions

POSIX.1c

Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)

POSIX.2

Shell and Utilities (IEEE Std 1003.2-1992)

POSIX.3

Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.3-1991)

POSIX.4

(IEEE Std 1003.4 withdrawn, replaced by 1003.1b)

POSIX.5

Ada Language Interfaces

POSIX.6

Security Interface Standards for POSIX

POSIX.7

Portable Applications

POSIX.8

Network-Transparent File Access

POSIX.9

FORTRAN 77 Language Interfaces (withdrawn)

POSIX.10

Supercomputing Application Environment Profile (withdrawn)

POSIX.11

Transaction Processing Applications Environment Profile (withdrawn)

POSIX.12

Portable Applications

Links

• https://standards.ieee.org/develop/wg/POSIX.html
• https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1003.1-2008.html
• http://opengroup.org