Re: Where CIFO, POSIX 1003.4a?

[kst@king.cts.com (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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