Portable Operating System for Unix A standard that defines the language interface between the Unix operating system and application programs through a minimal set of supported functions
(Portable Operating System Interface for uniX) - A set of programming interface standards governing how to write application source code so that the applications are portable between operating systems POSIX is based on UNIX and is the basis for the X/Open specification of The Open Group
The name for a series of standards being developed by the IEEE that specify a Portable Operating System interface The "IX" denotes the Unix heritage of these standards The main standard of interest for awk users is P1003 2, the Command Language and Utilities standard
The Portable Operating System Interface An operating-system interface standardization effort supported by ISO/IEC, IEEE, and The Open Group
A family of open system standards based on Unix Bash is concerned with POSIX 1003 2, the Shell and Tools Standard
The IEEE portable operating system interface (Aren't you glad you asked?) POSIX defines a family of definitions of how parts of computer systems work with each other and incidentally, with users POSIX is intended to look just like Unix but to be independent of any specific vendor There are about a dozen members of the POSIX family; the one you care about is 1003 2 (known as "dot two") and the related user portability extension (UPE) Together, they define the way the commands and shells work A system that compiles with 1003 2 and UPE looks enough like Unix that everything in this book applies to it
An IEEE/ISO standard The term is an acronym (of sorts) for Portable Operating System Interface -- the "X" alludes to "UNIX", on which the interface is based
Originally POSICE for Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments, POSIX is developed under pasc [Buy the Book] (rezidew)
Name of Standard for a Portable Unix, which is IEEE's family of 1003 x standards Hence POSIX also is a family of standards All the POSIX standards are also incorporated in ISO/IEC 9945-x standards
This standard defines a C programming language interface to an operating system environment This standard is used by computing professionals involved in system and application software development and implementation
refers to the various standards being developed by the "Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments of the IEEE Computer Society" under standard P1003 There are a number of subcommittees under POSIX, those of interest to this project are
Portable Operating System Interface For information, see http: //www pasc org/abstracts/posix htm
Acronym for portable operating system interface for computer environments A Federal Information Processing Standard Publication (FIPS PUB 151-1) for a vendor-independent interface between an operating system and an application program, including operating system interfaces and source code functions Note: IEEE Standard 1003 1-1988 was adopted by reference and published as FIPS PUB 151-1
A somewhat mangled abbreviation for Portable Operating System Interface A set of standards that grew out of the UNIX operating system
A set of standards intended to provide portable interfaces to operating systems services
A standard specifying semantics and interfaces for a UNIX-like kernel interface, along with standards for user-space facilities There is a core POSIX definition which must be supported by all POSIX-conforming OSes, and several optional standards for specific facilities; so you may see references to "POSIX shm" or "POSIX real-time signals"