INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC STANDARD 14519

Reference numberISO/IEC 14519:2001(E)

IEEEStd 1003.5, 1999 edition

INTERNATIONALSTANDARD

ISO/IEC14519

IEEEStd 1003.5

Second edition2001-12-15

Information technology — POSIX® AdaLanguage Interfaces — Binding for SystemApplication Program Interface (API)

Technologies de l'information — Interfaces de langage POSIX® Ada —Boucle pour interface de programme d'application système (API)

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International Standard ISO/IEC 14519:2001(E)

IEEE Std 1003.5, 1999 Edition

(Incorporates IEEE Std 1003.5-1992,IEEE Std 1003.5b-1996, and

IEEE Std 1003.5c-1998)

Information te chnology— POSIX® AdaLanguage Interfaces— Binding for SystemApplication Program Interface (API)

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Portable Applications Standards Committeeof theIEEE Computer Society

Approved 17 March 2001

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Approved 2001

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Abstract:

This standard is part of the POSIX ® series of standards for applications and user inter-faces toopen systems. It defines the Ada language bindings as package specifications and accompanying textualdescriptions of the application program interface (API). This standard supports application portability at thesource code level through the binding between ISO 8652:1995 (Ada) and ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (IEEE Std1003.1-1996) (POSIX) as amended by IEEE P1003.1g/D6.6. Terminology and general requirements, processprimitives, the process environment, files and directories, input and output primaries, device- and class-specific functions, language-specific services for Ada, system databases, synchronization, memorymanagement, execution scheduling, clocks and timers, message passing, task management, the XTI andsocket detailed network inter-faces, event management, network support functions, and protocol-specificmappings are covered. It also specifies behavior to support the binding that must be provided by the Ada.

Keywords:

Ada, API, application portability, computer language bindings, information exchange,interprocess communication, networks, open systems, operating systems, portable application, POSIX,POSIX language bindings, protocol-specific, protocol-independent, real-time, sockets, thread, XTI

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International Standard ISO/IEC 14519 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Informationtechnology, Subcommittee SC 22, Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces.

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Contents

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Section 1: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3 Conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Section 2: Terminology and General Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.1 Editorial Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.2 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.3 General Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.4 Package POSIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422.5 Package POSIX_Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762.6 Package POSIX_Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822.7 Package Ada_Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872.8 Package System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882.9 Package System_Storage_Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892.10 Package POSIX_Page_Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902.11 Environment Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Section 3: Process Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953.1 Package POSIX_Process_Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953.2 Package POSIX_Unsafe_Process_Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083.3 Package POSIX_Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Section 4: Process Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1494.1 Package POSIX_Process_Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1494.2 Package POSIX_Process_Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1564.3 Package POSIX_Process_Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574.4 Package POSIX_Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1644.5 Package POSIX_Configurable_System_Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Section 5: Files and Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755.1 Package POSIX_Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755.2 Package POSIX_Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785.3 Package POSIX_File_Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1905.4 Package POSIX_Configurable_File_Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Section 6: I/O Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056.1 Package POSIX_IO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

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6.2 Package POSIX_File_Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2326.3 Package POSIX_Asynchronous_IO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Section 7: Device- and Class-Specific Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537.1 General Terminal Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537.2 Package POSIX_Terminal_Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Section 8: Language-Specific Services for Ada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2798.1 Interoperable Ada I/O Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2798.2 Package POSIX_Supplement_to_Ada_IO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Section 9: System Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2879.1 Package POSIX_User_Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2879.2 Package POSIX_Group_Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Section 10: Data Interchange Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Section 11: Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29511.1 Package POSIX_Semaphores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29511.2 Package POSIX_Mutexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30411.3 Package POSIX_Condition_Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Section 12: Memory Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32312.1 Package POSIX_Memory_Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32412.2 Package POSIX_Memory_Range_Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32612.3 Package POSIX_Memory_Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32812.4 Package POSIX_Shared_Memory_Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33712.5 Package POSIX_Generic_Shared_Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Section 13: Execution Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34913.1 Scheduling Concepts and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34913.2 Package POSIX_Process_Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34913.3 Task Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35413.4 Synchronization Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Section 14: Clocks and Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35714.1 Package POSIX_Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35714.2 High Resolution Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Section 15: Message Passing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36715.1 Package POSIX_Message_Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Section 16: Task Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38316.1 Package Ada_Task_Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Section 17: Detailed Network Interface - XTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38517.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38517.2 States and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39117.3 The Use of Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39917.4 Package POSIX_XTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

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Section 18: Detailed Network Interface - Socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48718.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48718.2 Events and States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48918.3 Use of Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49818.4 Package POSIX_Sockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Section 19: Event Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53519.1 Package POSIX_Event_Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Annex A (informative) Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Annex B (informative) Rationale and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549B.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549B.2 Terminology and General Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563B.3 Process Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575B.4 Process Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592B.5 Files and Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598B.6 Input and Output Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602B.7 Device- and Class-Specific Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610B.8 Language-Specific Services for Ada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610B.9 System Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621B.10 Data Interchange Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623B.11 Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623B.12 Memory Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629B.13 Execution Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634B.14 Clocks and Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639B.15 Message Passing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642B.16 Task Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643B.17 Thread-Specific Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643B.18 Detailed Network Interface - XTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643B.19 Detailed Network Interface - Socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646B.20 Network Support Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647B.21 Protocol Mappings Annex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Annex C (informative) Ada/C Cross-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651C.1 Ada-to-C Cross-Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651C.2 C-to-Ada Cross-Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Annex D (normative) Protocol Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713D.1 Sockets Protocol Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713D.2 XTI Protocol Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Alphabetic Topical Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819

TABLES

Table1.1 – Sockets and XTI Package Renaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Table2.1 – Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Table2.2 – Constant and Subtype Correspondences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Table2.3 – Option Set Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Table2.4 – Static Subtypes and Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Table2.5 – Portable Constants and Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Table2.6 – Static Subtypes and Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Table3.1 – Default Actions for Job Control Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Table4.1 – Functions for System-Wide Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Table4.2 – Configurable System Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Table6.1 – Standard File Descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Table6.2 – Error Codes and AIO Status Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Table7.1 – Terminal_Characteristics Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Table7.2 – Terminal_Modes Values for Input Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265Table7.3 – Terminal_Modes Values for Output Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Table7.4 – Terminal_Modes Values for Hardware Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Table7.5 – Terminal_Modes Values for Local Control Modes . . . . . . . . . . 269Table7.6 – Special Control Character Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Table17.1 – Events and Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Table17.2 – Classification of the XTI Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392Table17.3 – Communication Interface States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394Table17.4 – Initialization/De-initialization State Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396Table17.5 – Data Transfer State Table for Connectionless-Mode Service . . . . 396Table17.6 – Connection/Release/Data Transfer State Table for Connection-

Mode Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397Table17.7 – Event_Requires_Attention Error Indications . . . . . . . . . . 399Table18.1 – Socket Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490Table18.2 – Socket States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491TableB.1 – Correspondence of File Creation Flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615TableD.1 – Port Number Re-Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744TableD.2 – Communications_Provider_Info Returned by Get_Info and

Open, mOSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774TableD.3 – XTI and ACSE/Presentation Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777TableD.4 – XTI mOSI Connection-Mode Data Transfer Services . . . . . . . . . 779TableD.5 – XTI and Association Release Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779TableD.6 – XTI Connectionless-Mode ACSE Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780TableD.7 – Communications_Provider_Info Returned by Get_Info and

Open, ISO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801TableD.8 – Communications_Provider_Info Returned by Get_Info and

Open, Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810

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IEEE Std 1003.5c-1998

Introduction

(This introduction is not a part of IEEE Std 1003.5c-1998, IEEE Standard for Information Technology– POSIX

RAda Language Interfaces – Part 1: Binding for System Application Program Interface (API)

– Amendment 2: Protocol-Independent Interfaces, cbut is included for information only.)

This standard is an amended version of IEEE Std 1003.5b-1996. cThe basic goal ofthis standard is to provide an Ada application program interface for the language-independent services made accessible to C-language applications programs by theinterfaces defined in ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (IEEE Std 1003.1-1996) f2g as amendedby IEEE P1003.1g fB14g c.

The intent is to support portability of Ada applications via a standard binding tothe services provided by a POSIX-conforming operating system. POSIX is definedby the standard C-language interfaces cited above. Therefore, much of the work inproducing this standard was deciding what features of those C-language interfacesrepresented POSIX functionality, as opposed to C-language-specific features.

This standard provides package specifications and accompanying textual descriptionfor a set of Ada packages that represent the POSIX system. This standard also spec-ifies behavior to support the binding that must be provided by the Ada compilationsystem, and further defines behavior specified as implementation defined in the Adalanguage standard (particularly in the area of Text_IO ) for use in a POSIX environ-ment.

The emphasis in POSIX is on application program portability, so the interfaces in thisstandard are not intended to be sufficient to implement an Ada compilation systemor a POSIX shell as defined in IEEE Standard 1003.2 fB16g. For an application,the intent is that a Strictly Conforming POSIX.5 Application (one that uses onlythe facilities in this standard and that does not depend on implementation-definedbehavior) can be ported to any Conforming Implementation of these interfaces andthat the binding makes it easy to identify where a program is not strictly conformingand makes such programs easier to port.

Organization of This Standard

The standard is divided into three parts:

— Statement of scope, list of normative references, and conformance information(Section 1)

— Definitions and global concepts (Section 2)

— The various interface facilities (Sections 3 through 19)

The content of the sections parallels that of the correspondingly numbered sectionsof ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 and IEEE P1003.1g/D6.6, with a few changes required toaccomodate differences between the Ada and C-language interfaces. cThis standard

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PART 1: BINDING FOR SYSTEM APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE (API) IEEE Std 1003.5c-1998

has no Section 10, since there is no Ada binding for that Section 10 (Data InterchangeFormats) of ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996.

This introduction, any footnotes, notes accompanying the text, and the informativeannexes are not considered part of this standard.

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IEEE Std 1003.5c-1998 IEEE STANDARD FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – POSIX ADA INTERFACES

IEEE Std 1003.5-1992 was prepared by the 1003.5 Working Group, sponsored bythe Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Applications Environments ofthe IEEE Computer Society. At the time IEEE Std 1003.5-1992 was approved themembership of the IEEE P1003.5 working group was as follows:

Technical Committee on Operating Systemsand Application Environments (TCOS)

Chair: Jehan-Francois Paris

TCOS Standards Subcommittee

Chair: Jim IsaakVice Chairs: Ralph Barker

Hal JespersonLorraine KevraPete MeierAndrew Twigger

Treasurer: Peter SmithSecretary: Shane McCarron

P1003.5 Working Group Officials

Chair: James P. LonjersSteven Deller (1989-1991)Major Terrence Fong (1988-1989)

Vice Chairs: James P. Lonjers (1990-1991)Major Terrence Fong (1989-1990)Stowe Boyd (1988-1989)

Editors: David EmeryHal JespersonSteven Deller (1988-1989)

Rationale Editor: Mitch GartSecretary: C. Jayne Baker

David Emery (1988-1989)

Technical Reviewers

Ted BakerSteven DellerDennis Doubleday

David EmeryMitch Gart

Jim LonjersJim MooreStephen Schwarm

Working Group

Ted BakerStowe BoydBevin BrettCharles BrownRobert BrownBhavesh DamaniaSteven DellerDennis DoubledayDavid EmeryTerry FongMitchell Gart

Michael GillamAl GlobusMars GraliaJayne GuyseKen HarveyRuth HirtJeff HooleyMichael KjolsrudPeter KruppJames Leathrum

Sue LeGrandJames LonjersJames MooreMark RuddockStephen SchwarmMichael ShapiroBrian SullivanDel SwansonRobert VoigtOlle WikstromJohn Zenor

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The following persons where members of the balloting group for IEEE Std 1003.5-1992.

Harold C. AdamsJohn S. AdamsOmar AhmedDavid AllenCharles J. AntonelliB. ArdaryDavid AthersychRandall AtkinsonRandal J. AugustKenneth A. AustinCarolyn J. BakerRobert L. BakerTed BakerJames BaldoBrad BalfourGary E. BarnesMitchell C. BarnhartRandall BarronSteven BarryteBarbara K. BeauchampGary BeermanE. Jerome BellDonald BennettPeter A. BerggrenMark BiggarRobert BismuthAlex BlakemoreStephen Blanchette, Jr.Pieter BotmanStowe BoydCarl BrandonPhilip BrashearJoseph P. BrazyMark S. BreckenridgeRonald F. BrenderJim BriggsThomas C. BrookeJerry R. BrookshireCharles O. BrownElizabeth B. BrownJane C. BryanGary L. BurtChristopher ByrnesDavid CallowayNicholas A. CamilloneKenneth W. CampbellRick CarleDavid J. CarlsonDana CarsonJeffrey R. CarterJerry CashinH. L. CatalaLarry ChandlerAndy CheeseJames Chelini

Andrew ChungBrad ClarkLori A. ClarkeNorman H. CohenEdward ColbertPhillippe CollardRobert A. ContiWilliam M. CorwinMike CosseyJohn CourtneyDonald CragunRichard A. CrawfordJim CreeganPhyllis CrillJohn J. CupakCharles DanaWilliam H. DashiellDavid DavisRich DeBernardoDavid DeFantiMike DeanDave DecotSteven DellerJorge Diaz-HerreraMichael B. DillencourtJames H. DobbinsAudrey DorofeeTerence DowlingDiptendu DuttaEugene EdelsteinTheodore F. ElbertRichard W. ElwoodDavid EmeryArny EngelsonPhilip H. EnslowWilliam EventoffGary FalacaraJohn H. FauerbyCharles A. FinnellJeffery FischerShayne FlintTerence FongEdward J. Forbes, Jr.Roy S. FreedmanRandal S. FreierDale J. GaumerLarry GearhartK. M. GeorgeGregory A. GiccaRobert T. GoettgePhillip GoldsteinRoger GolliverWilliam N. GoolsbyWilliam J. GouletMars J. Gralia

Allen L. GrauCharles R. GraulingDaniel GreenTom GriestF. GrizeErnesto GuerrieriLawrence M. GuntherR. N. HagenCharles HammonsPeter A. HansenSam HarbaughSamuel HarbisonDavid S. HardinCharles HarkeyLoren L. HartThomas S. HawkerClark M. HayRalph HaywardJohn Craig HeberleWilliam HefleyA. Marlow HenneDonald C. HillNorman HinesC. Michael HollowayJeffrey HooleyJoseph P. HoolihanTom HousmanRichard HowardNorman R. HowesLynne M. HubbsDavid K. HughesRichard G. HullJeremy JamesHal JespersenDarryl N. JohnsonBruce JohnstonAlain JouchouxJuern JuergensSteven KahnFumimiko KamijoAlan KaminskyLing KanKarl KelleyRobert H. C. KempJudy S. KernerJames J. KeysPaul J. KingHans R. KlayKenneth KlossRobert KnightenJoseph B. KolbJohn C. KrasnowskiLak Ming LamRudolf C. LandwehrCharles F. Lanman

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Gary LautherPatricia K. LawlisScott A. LeschkeM. LevitzStephen H. LevyF. C. LimTimothy E. LindquistJ. J. LoganJames P. LonjersWarren E. LoperMark LovelandGeorge A. LudgateSonny LundahlWesley MackeyAustin J. MaherJames MaloneyRoger MartinRobert MathisFred Maymir-DucharmeCatherine McDonaldRobert L. McGarveyDaniel L. McNameeRobert McWhirterNancy R. MeadGeoff MendalJay MichaelGary W. MillerRobert E. MillerJudah MogilenskyAl MokCharles S. MooneyJames D. MooneyFreeman MooreJames W. MooreJerry A. MooreJohn I. Moore, Jr.Duncan MorrillM. W. MorronGary MrenakDavid G. MullensRichard E. NeseeSai Lun NgDaniel NissenKarl NybergJames O’DayEvelyn ObaidPatricia OberndorfKurt M. OlenderS. Ron Oliver

James K. ParrishThomas ParrishOffer PazyWalt PenneyGuido PerschFlavio PetersenThomas A. PetersonGeorge W. PetznickHane W. PolzerJ. PottmyerCharles PowEileen QuannPaul RabinJohn ReddanW. Scott RedmonGregg ReedCarl ReinertJudith RichardsonRichard A. RinkClyde RobyC. Allan RoferHyman RosenJerome D. RosenFrederick M. RyszAgnes M. SardiRobert J. SatnikAllen SaxtonLorne H. SchachterF. P. SchauerAlfred H. ScholldorfRon SchroederMike SchultzW. L. SchultzFritz SchulzLeonard SeagrenRichard SeibelLawrence H. ShaferMichael D. ShapiroJohn G. SheaNagy M. ShehadDan ShiaThomas E. ShieldsKeith ShillingtonDavid ShochatStephen SchwarmRobert Charles ShockJerome L. Sibol, Jr.Lee Silverthorn

Ronald SkoogThomas J. SmithCharles SnyderJon S. SquireJeff StevensonBrian SullivanDel SwansonS. Tucker TaftRavi TavakleyDonn S. TerryJohn A. ThalhamerWilliam J. ThomasPeter L. ThompsonJames L. TroyRoger TubbyMark-Rene UchidaL. David UmbaughRobert B. UrlingEvelyn M. UzzleFrances Van ScoyLeonard VanekMichael W. VannierUwe WackerRobert N. WagonerMary WallStephen R. WalliNeal WaltersKenneth WasmundtWilliam WebsterJ. Richard WegerBrian WeisRobert WeissenseeMichael K. WelterStephen WersanThomas WheelerWilliam WhitakerBruce WieandDavid WillcoxDavid C. WilletDavid WilliamsonPaul A. WillisDavid H. WinfieldDavid C. WolfePaul A. WolfgangMichal YoungOren YuanJanusz ZalewskiK. M. ZemrowskiJohn Zolnowsky

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When the IEEE Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.5-1992 on 18 June 1992,it had the following membership:

Marco W. Migliaro, Chair Donald C. Loughry, Vice Chair

Andrew G. Salem, Secretary

Dennis BodsonPaul L. Borrill Clyde R.CampDonald C. FleckensteinJay Forster �

David F. FranklinRamiro GarciaThomas L. Hannan

Donald N. HeirmanBen C. JohnsonWalter J. KarplusIvor N. KnightJoseph L. Koepfinger�

Irving KolodnyD.N. “Jim” LogothetisLawrence V. McCall

T. Don Michael�

John L. RankinsWallace S. ReadRonald H. ReimerGary S. RobinsonMartin V. SchneiderTerrance R. WhittemoreDonald W. Zipse

�Member Emeritus

Also included are the following nonvoting IEEE Standards Board liaisons:

Satish K. AggarwalJames BeallRichard B.EnglemanDavid E. SoffrinStanley Warshaw

Mary Lynne NielsenIEEE Standards Project Editor

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IEEE Std 1003.5b-1996 was prepared by the P1003.5 working group, sponsored bythe Portable Applications Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. Atthe time IEEE Std 1003.5b-1996 was approved the membership of the P1003.5 work-ing group was as follows:

Portable Applications Standards Committee (PASC)

Chair: Jehan-Francois Paris

PASC Standards Subcommittee

Chair: Lowell JohnsonVice Chair: Charles SeveranceFunctional Chairs: Barry Needham

John SpencerJay AshfordAndrew Josey

Treasurer: Peter SmithSecretary: Charles Severance

IEEE P1003.5 Working Group Officials

Chair: James P. Lonjers (1991-1994)Stephen Schwarm (1995-1996)Ted Baker (1996-1997)

Vice Chairs: Stephen Schwarm (1991-1995)Randy Greene (1995-1996)David Emery (1003.5 Interpretations)

Editor: Ted Baker (P1003.5b)Rationale Editor: Lee LucasSecretary: C. Jayne Guyse (1991-1993)

Peter Obermayer (1994-1996)

Technical Reviewers

Ted BakerMark FaulkTed GieringRandy Greene

Lee LucasPeter ObermayerOffer PazyRuth A. PeekEd Posnak

Henry H. RobbinsStephen SchwarmDel SwansonLaurent Visconti

Working Group

Theodore P. (Ted) BakerBevin BrettSteven DellerDavid EmeryMark FaulkRandy GreeneC. Jayne Guyse

David K. HughesJames LonjersLee LucasPeter ObermayerJames T. OblingerOffer PazyRuth A. Peek

Ray RiccoHenry H. RobbinsStephen SchwarmJim SmithDel SwansonLaurent ViscontiJohn Zenor

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The following persons were members of the balloting group for IEEE Std 1003.5b-1996:

Alejandro A. AlonsoTheodore P. BakerRobert BarnedAndy BihainWilliam M. CorwinSteven DellerDavid EmeryPhilip H. EnslowMichael GonzalezC. Jayne GuyseJoe GwinnPatrick HebertSteven Howell

Norman R. HowesDavid K. HughesJudy KernerPhilippe KruchtenThomas M. KuriharaArthur LichtC. Douglass LockeJames P. LonjersLee W. LucasRoland McGrathPaul MurdockJames T. OblingerOffer Pazy

Dave PlaugerArlan PoolHenry H. RobbinsStephen SchwarmLeonard W. SeagrenRobert Alan SiegelDennis C. StewartAlfred StrohmeierDel SwansonMark-Rene UchidaUSENIXVictor Fay-WolfeJohn Zenor

When the IEEE Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.5b-1996 on 20 June 1996,it had the following membership:

Donald C. Loughry, Chair Richard J. Holleman, Vice Chair

Andrew G. Salem, Secretary

Gilles A. BarilClyde R. CampJoseph A. CannatelliStephen L. DiamondHarold E. EpsteinDonald C. FleckensteinJay Forster �

Donald N. HeirmanBen C. Johnson

E. G. “Al” KienerJoseph L. Koepfinger�

Stephen R. LambertLawrence V. McCallBruce McClungMarco W. MigliaroMary Lou PadgettJohn W. Pope

Jose R. RamosArthur K. ReillyRonald H. ReimerGary S. RobinsonIngo RuschJohn S. RyanChee Kiow TanLeonard L. TrippHoward L. Wolfman

�Member Emeritus

Also included are the following nonvoting IEEE Standards Board liaisons:

Satish K. AggarwalAlan H. CooksonChester C. Taylor

Lisa S. YoungIEEE Standards Project Editor

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