POSIX-Ada standard - IEEE reaffirmation vote

POSIX-Ada standard - IEEE reaffirmation vote

[Dirk Craeynest]

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A vote is impending for IEEE to reaffirm the POSIX-Ada binding.
If you or your organization would like to see this important standard
reaffirmed, please consider participating in the vote.

For more information, see the appended posting by Ted Baker.

Dirk (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for Ada-Belgium/Europe e-mail)

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:03:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Ted Baker <baker@cs.fsu.edu>
To: ada-comment@ada-auth.org
Subject: [Ada-Comment] reaffirmation ballot on posix ada binding, need balloters

The POSIX 1003.5 a-c standards are due to expire unless reaffirmed.
If you would like to see these standards continue (with no changes)
I hope you will consider signing up for the balloting group, and
pass this information along to other members of the Ada community.

--Ted Baker

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Title: Std. 1003.5-1999 Reaffirmation:  IEEE Standard for 
Information Technology�POSIX � Ada Language Interfaces-Part 
1: Binding for System Application Program Interface (API)

Scope: This standard is part of the POSIX � series of standards 
for applications and user interfaces to open systems. It 
defines the Ada language bindings as package specifications 
and accompanying textual descriptions of the application 
program interface (API). This standard supports application 
portability at the source code level through the binding 
between ISO 8652:1995 (Ada) and ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (IEEE 
Std 1003.1-1996) (POSIX) as amended by IEEE P1003.1g/D6.6.
Terminology and general requirements, process primitives, 
the process environment, files and directories, input and 
output primaries, device- and class-specific functions, 
language-specific services for Ada, system databases, 
synchronization, memory management, execution scheduling,
clocks and timers, message passing, task management, the 
XTI and socket detailed network interfaces, event 
management, network support functions, and protocol-
specific mappings are covered. It also specifies behavior 
to support the binding that must be proviced by the Ada.

Purpose: See Scope.

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Please Note:  For your information, this standard is approximately 900 
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