27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
6:44 a.m.
rms had nothing to do with the name posix. I have no idea where that
comment came from.
The p1003 committee for Ieee was the portable operating system standard and
at the time adding ix was the norm. POSIX became the term we all used to
refer to the work we doing. Rms was not involved in any way
Clem
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 5:53 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> wrote:
Warner Losh wrote in
<CANCZdfpSPE0yhgyFch4JDUC1JW17V4pz7cZ2aGpDk+chsY93ig(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|I'll add that POSIX, as we know it today (and really since at least 2000)
|is a collaboration between The Open Group, IEEE Std 1003.1-XXXX and
ISO/IEC
|9945:YYYY (collectively known as the Austin Group, though why "Austin" I
|cannot say).
|
|So these days, it's standardized by "both" IEEE and ANSI (in the form
of
|ISO, of which ANSI is effectively a member).
The explanation is part of the standard
1
The Austin Group is named after the location of the inaugural
meeting held at the IBM facility in Austin, Texas in September
1998.
2
The name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman. It is expected
to be pronounced with the first two syllables as in positive,
not poh-six, or other variations. The pronunciation has been
published in an attempt to promulgate a standardized way of
referring to a standard operating system interface.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)