| LC control no. | sh 97002559 |
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| Topical heading | POSIX (Computer software standard) |
| Variant(s) | Portable Operating System Interface (Computer software standard) |
| See also | Operating systems (Computers)--Standards |
| Found in | Work cat.: 97-6635: Butenhof, D. Programming with POSIX threads, 1997. Freedman, A. Computer glossary, 1993 (POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX) Robelle Web site, Mar. 10, 1997 (POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface, and is an IEEE standard designed to facilitate application portability. POSIX is an attempt by a consortium of vendors to create a single standard version of UNIX. If they are successful, it will make it easier to port applications between hardware platforms. There are more than ten parts to the POSIX standard, but two are widely available: POSIX.1 defines C programming interfaces. POSIX.2 defines a "shell" command interpreter and utilities.) |
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