In article <879670842.278974@wagasa.cts.com>, kst@king.cts.com says... > >Robert S. White (nospam@somewhere.ia.us) wrote: >> In article <64g2hl$6m5@mtinsc02.worldnet.att.net>, >> Hartsough@worldnet.att.net says... >> >I've spent quite a bit of time in the search engines trying >> >with no success to locate the following items: >> > >> >POSIX 1003.4a, and >> >Catalog of Interface Features and Options (CIFO) >> > >> >I'd prefer ftp-able versions, though I could live with >> >a reference for obtaining hardcopies. >> >> ISBN 1-56592-074-0 for $29.95 from my friendly Barnes & Noble. >> "Programming for the Real World POSIX.4" by Bill O. Gallmeister, >> O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1995 > >"Programming for the Real World POSIX.4" is a *description* of the >POSIX.4 (now called 1003.1b) standard; it's not the standard itself. >Also, it doesn't cover POSIX 1003.4a (now 1003.1c), which is what the >original poster was asking about. Sorry! I missed the "a". > >(POSIX.4, aka 1003.1b-1993, is real-time extensions; POSIX.4a, aka >1003.1c-1994, is threads extensions. Reference: "Programming for the >Real World POSIX.4", page 6.) > >There's another O'Reilly book called Pthreads Programming, ISBN >1-56592-115-1, by Bradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar, and Jacqueline Proulx >Farrel, that covers POSIX threads. It's more of a tutorial than a >description of the standard. As Keith points out the real thing is: "9945-1 : 1996 (ISO/IEC) [IEEE/ANSI Std 1003.1, 1996 Edition] Information Technology--Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX�) --Part 1: System Application: Program Interface (API) [C Language] This NEW edition incorporates extensions for realtime applications (1003.1b-1993, 1003.1i-1995) and threads (1003.1c-1995). 784 pages [1-55937-573-6] [SH94352-NYF] $120.00 * IEEE Mbr: $84.00" >You should be able to get the standards themselves from IEEE for lots >of money; see . Thanks Keith! That is very useful, esp the page: http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/interp/1003-1c-95_int/index.html which has interpretations that you are allowed to make one printed copy of and use at your own risk (non-official). _____________________________________________________________________ Robert S. White -- An embedded systems software engineer e-mail reply to reverse of: ia us lib cedar-rapids crpl shift2 whiter