Subject: IEEE Invitation to Ballot  P1003.1 Revision
From: Andrew Josey <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:55:20 +0100


For your information:

Enclosed is the IEEE Invitation to Ballot for the P1003.1 (POSIX) revision project.

Please note you only need to respond if you wish to participate in the
IEEE approvals process for the revision project. You can still
participate directly with the Austin Group, ISO or The Open Group.

regards
Andrew
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P1003.1 
Title: Information Technology - Portable Operating System Interface
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***** IEEE STANDARD DOCUMENT INFORMATION *****
The IEEE Computer Society Society/IEEE Information Technology - Portable
Operating System Interface (POSIX(R)) invites you to participate in the
Revision Sponsor Ballot for:
P1003.1

Title: Information Technology - Portable Operating System Interface
(POSIX(R))

Scope: IEEE Std 1003.1-200x 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 intended to be used by both applications
developers and system implementors.

IEEE Std 1003.1-200x comprises four major components (each in an
associated volume):
1. General terms, concepts, and interfaces common to all volumes of
IEEE Std 1003.1-200x, including utility conventions and
C-language header definitions, are included in the Base
Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x.
2. Definitions for system service functions and subroutines,
language-specific system services for the C programming
language, function issues, including portability, error
handling, and error recovery, are included in the System
Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x.
3. Definitions for a standard source code-level interface to
command interpretation services (a "shell") and common utility
programs for application programs are included in the Shell and
Utilities volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x.
4. Extended rationale that did not fit well into the rest of the
document structure, containing historical information concerning
the contents of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x and why features were
included or discarded by the standard developers, is included in
the Rationale (Informative) volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x.

The following areas are outside of the scope of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x:
* Graphics interfaces
* Database management system interfaces
* Record I/O considerations
* Object or binary code portability
* System configuration and resource availability

IEEE Std 1003.1-200x describes the external characteristics and
facilities that are of importance to applications developers, rather
than the internal construction techniques employed to achieve these
capabilities. Special emphasis is placed on those functions and
facilities that are needed in a wide variety of commercial applications.

The facilities provided in IEEE Std 1003.1-200x are drawn from the
following base documents:
* IEEE Std 1003.1(TM), 2004 Edition (POSIX-1) (incorporating IEEE
Stds 1003.1(TM)-2001, 1003.1(TM)-2001/Cor 1-2002 and 1003.1(TM)-2001/Cor
2-2004)
* Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 1
* Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 2
* Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 3
* Open Group Technical Standard, 2006, Extended API Set Part 4
* ISO/IEC 9899:1999, Programming Languages - C.

Purpose: The purpose of this standard is to provide applications
developers and
system implementors 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. 


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