Preface

Solaris^(TM) is Sun Microsystem's integrated computing environment that includes the SunOS^(TM) operating system, OpenWindows^(TM) and numerous bundled utilities. SunOS is compliant with the System V Interface Definition, Issue 3 from UNIX^(R) System Laboratories.

This book is part of the Solaris documentation set. It discusses the compliance of Solaris 2.4 and the SunOS 5.4 operating system to the following specifications and standards:

• Application Binary Interface (ABI)
• System V Interface Definition, Issue 3 (SVID)
• Device Driver Interface/Driver-Kernel Interface (DDI/DKI)
• Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI)
• Transport Provider Interface (TPI)
• ^(R) · OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• X Window System^(TM) Protocol, Version 11 (X11)
• X/Open^(TM) XPG3 BASE
• X/Open XPG4 BASE
• ANSI/IEEE Standard 1003.1-1990 - (POSIX.1)
• ANSI C Programming Language
• International Standards Organization (ISO) 8859-1
• Federal Information Processing Standard 151 (FIPS 151)
• Federal Information Processing Standard 158 (FIPS 158)
• ANSI/IEEE Standard 754
• SPARC Compliance Definition 2.1 (SCD 2.1)

Chapter 1 of this book introduces the organizations responsible for the specifications and standards covered in this guide. Chapters 2 through 7 discuss the specifications and standards; a brief account of each specification or standard is followed by a statement of compliance with it.