Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

[Michael & Amy Hartsough]

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.

Thanks,
	Michael

Re: Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

[Robert S. White]

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

I seems that hardly any IEEE standards are free and available for
ftp download :-(

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Re: Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

[Keith Thompson]

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.

(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.

You should be able to get the standards themselves from IEEE for lots
of money; see <http://www.ieee.org>.

As for CIFO, I believe it was published in Ada Letters a few years ago.

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Re: Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

[Robert S. White]

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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 <http://www.ieee.org>.

  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).
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Re: Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

[Michael & Amy Hartsough]

Thanks for the pointers!

	Michael

Re: Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

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kst@king.cts.com (Keith Thompson) writes:

>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.

Beware:  the C examples in that book are really dreadful.
I can only presume that none of them were run through Lint or any other
static checker, and that many of them never saw a compiler either.

-- 
John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
Richard A. O'Keefe; RMIT Comp.Sci; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok