............................Contents


Preface	xiii
1. A Look at Some Standards Organizations	1
...Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and POSIX	1
...X/Open	2
...National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)	3
...International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the
......International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)	3
...UniForum	3
...American National Standards Institute (ANSI)	4
2. UNIX System V Release
...4-Based (SVR4) Specifications	5
...UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4)	5
...Application Binary Interface	6
......SunOS Compliance With the ABI Specification	6
......ABI Specifications and Related Publications	7
...System V Interface Definition (SVID)	8


......SunOS Compliance With SVID3	8
......SVID Specification	9
...Device Driver Interface/Driver-Kernel Interface (DDI/DKI) .	9
......SunOS Compliance with the Specification	9
......DDI/DKI and DKI Specifications and Related Publications	9
...Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI)	10
......SunOS Compliance With DLPI	10
......DLPI Specification	10
...Transport Provider Interface	11
......SunOS Compliance with TPI	11
...OPEN LOOK	11
......Solaris Compliance With OPEN LOOK	13
......OPEN LOOK Specification and Related References	14
......Licensing the OPEN LOOK Trademark	14
3. X11, PostScript and Sun Microsystems' OpenWindows	15
...X Window System, Version 11 (X11)	15
...PostScript Language	16
......Solaris Compliance With X11	17
......Solaris Compliance with PostScript	17
......X11 Specification and Related Publications	17
4. X/Open and XPG3	19
......The X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3	19
......The X/Open Brand Trademark	20
...The X/Open Conformance Statement for Solaris	22


...X/Open Conformance Statement	22
...X/Open Specification and Related Publications	55
5. X/Open and XPG4	57
......The X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 4	57
......The X/Open Brand Trademark	57
...The X/Open Conformance Statement for Solaris	59
...X/Open Conformance Statement	59
6. POSIX.1	83
...Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments
......(POSIX.1)	83
......Amending POSIX.1: The IEEE Standard 1003.1b	83
...Scope	84
...C Standard Compliance	84
...Audience	84
...Notation Used in the Remainder of this Chapter	85
...Implementation-Defined Areas of POSIX.1	85
...POSIX.1 Section 1, General	85
......1.3.1 Implementation Conformance	85
...POSIX.1 Section 2, Terminology and General Requirements	86
......2.2.2 General Terms	86
......2.3 General Concepts	88
......2.4 Error Numbers	88
......2.5 Primitive System Data Types	90
......2.6 Environment Description	90


......2.7 C Language Definitions	90
......2.8 Numerical Limits	91
......2.9 Symbolic Constants	93
...POSIX.1 Section 3, Process Primitives	94
......3.1.1.2 Process Creation: Description	94
......3.1.1.4 Errors	94
......3.1.2.2 Execute a File: Description	95
......3.1.2.4 Execute a File: Errors	96
......3.2.1.2 Wait for Process Termination: Description	97
......3.2.2.2 Terminate a Process: Description	97
......3.3.1.1 Signal Names	97
......3.3.1.2 Signal Generation and Delivery	98
......3.3.1.3 Signal Actions	99
......3.3.2.2 Send a Signal to a Process: Description	100
......3.3.3.4 Manipulate Signal Sets: Errors	100
......3.3.4.2 Examine and Change Signal Action: Description	100
......3.3.6.4 Examine Pending Signals: Errors	100
...POSIX.1 Section 4, Process Environment	101
......4.2.4.4 Get User Name: Errors	101
......4.4.1.2 Get System Name: Description	101
......4.5.1.4 Get System Time: Errors	101
......4.6.1.4 Environment Variables: Errors	101
......4.7.1.4 Generate Terminal Pathname: Errors	102
......4.7.2.4 Determine Terminal Device Name: Errors	102


...POSIX.1 Section 5, Files and Directories	102
......5.1.1 Format of Directory Entries	102
......5.1.2.4 Directory Operations: Errors	102
......5.2.2.4 Get Working Directory Pathname: Errors	103
......5.3.1.2 Open a File: Description	104
......5.3.3.2 Set File Creation Mask: Description	104
......5.3.4.2 Link to a File: Description	104
......5.4.1.2 Make a Directory: Description	105
......5.4.2.2 Make a FIFO Special File: Description	105
......5.5.1.2 Remove Directory Entries: Description	106
......5.5.1.4 Remove Directory Entries: Errors	106
......5.5.2.2 Remove a Directory: Description	106
......5.5.2.4 Remove a Directory: Errors	107
......5.5.3.2 Rename a File: Description	107
......5.5.3.4 Rename a File: Errors	107
......5.6.1.2 File Characteristics: File Modes	108
......5.6.2.2 Get File Status: Description	108
......5.6.3.4 Check File Accessibility: Errors	108
......5.6.4.2 Change File Modes: Description	108
......5.6.5.2 Change Owner and Group of a File: Description	109
......5.6.5.4 Change Owner and Group of a File: Errors	109
......5.7.1.4 Get Configurable Pathname Variables: Errors	109
...POSIX.1 Section 6, Input and Output Primitives	110
......6.3.1.2 Close a File: Description	110


......6.4.1.2 Read from a File: Description	111
......6.4.2.2 Write to a File: Description	111
......6.5.2.2 File Control: Description	112
......6.5.3.2 Reposition Read/Write File Offset: Description	112
......6.6 File Synchronization	112
......6.6.1.2 Synchronize a File's State: Description	112
......6.7.1.1 Data Definitions for Asynchronous Input and Output:
........Asynchronous I/O Control Block	113
......6.7.7.2 Cancel Asynchronous I/O Request: Description	113
...POSIX.1 Section 7, Device- and Class-Specific Functions	113
......7.1 General Terminal Interface	113
......7.1.1.3 The Controlling Terminal	114
......7.1.1.5 Input Processing and Reading Data	114
......7.1.1.6 Canonical Mode Input Processing	114
......7.1.1.7 Noncanonical Mode Input Processing	115
......7.1.1.8 Writing Data and Output Processing	115
......7.1.1.9 Special Characters	115
......7.1.2.2 Input Modes	116
......7.1.2.3 Output Modes	117
......7.1.2.4 Control Modes	118
......7.1.2.5 Local Modes	118
......7.1.2.6 Special Control Characters	119
......7.1.3.4 Baud Rate Functions: Errors	119
......7.2.1.2 Get and Set State: Description	119


......7.2.2.2 Line Control Functions: Description	119
...POSIX.1 Section 8, Language-Specific Services for the C
......Programming Language	120
......8.1.1 Referenced C Language Routines, Extensions to Time
........Functions	120
......8.1.2.2 Extensions to setlocale(): Description	120
......8.2.2.4 Open a Stream on a File Descriptor: Errors	121
......8.2.3 Interactions of Other File-Type C Functions	121
......8.3.2.2 Set Time Zones: Description	121
...POSIX.1 Section 9, System Databases	122
......9.1 System Databases	122
......9.2.1.4 Group Database Access: Errors	122
......9.2.2.4 User Database Access: Errors	122
...POSIX.1 Section 10, Data Interchange Format	123
......10.1 Archive/Interchange File Format	123
......10.1.1 Extended `tar` Format	123
......10.1.2.1 Header	123
......10.1.2.2 File Name	124
......10.1.3 Multiple Volumes	124
...POSIX.1 Section 11, Synchronization	124
......11.2.3.2 Initialize/Open a Named Semaphore: Description	124
...POSIX.1 Section 12, Memory Management	125
......12.1.1.2 Lock/Unlock a Process's Address Space: Description
........125
......12.1.1.4 Lock/Unlock a Process's Address Space: Errors	125


......12.1.2.4 Lock/Unlock a Range of Process Address Space: Errors
........126
......12.2.1.2 Map Process Addresses to a Memory Object:
........Description	126
......12.3.1.2 Open a Shared Memory Object: Description	126
......12.4.1.1.1 Process Memory Locking: Models	126
...POSIX.1 Section 13, Execution Scheduling	127
......13.2 Scheduling Policies	127
......13.2.3 Scheduling Policies: SCHED_OTHER	127
......13.3.1.2 Set Scheduling Parameters: Description	127
......13.3.3.2 Set Scheduling Policy and Scheduling Parameters:
........Description	128
...POSIX.1 Section 14, Clocks and Timers	128
......14.2.1.2 Clock and Timer Functions: Description	128
......14.2.2.2 Create a Per-Process Timer: Description	129
......14.2.4.2 Per-Process Timers: Description	129
...POSIX.1 Section 15, Message Passing	129
......15.1.1. Data Definitions for Message Queues: Data Structures
........129
......15.2.1.2 Open a Message Queue: Description	130
7. De Jure Standards	131
...ANSI C Programming Language	131
......Compliance With the ANSI C Standard	132
......ANSI C Specification and Related Publications	132
...ANSI/IEEE 754	132
......Compliance With ANSI/IEEE 754	132


......ANSI/IEEE 754-1985 Specification and Related Publications	133
...International Standards Organization (ISO) 8859-1	133
......Compliance With ISO 8859-1	133
......ISO 8859 Standard	133
...Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 151	134
......Compliance With FIPS 151	134
......FIPS 151 Specification	134
...Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 158	134
......Compliance With FIPS 158	135
......FIPS 158 Specification and Related Publications	135
...The Application Binary Interface (ABI)	135
......Compliance With the ABI	136
......ABI Publication	136
...SPARC Compliance Definition (SCD)	136
......Compliance With the SCD	136
......SPARC Compliance Definition Specification	136