Conformance with POSIX 1003.1c vs. POSIX 1003.4a?
christof ameye we41 xxxx wrote: > Some pthread libraries talk about conformance with POSIX 1003.1c and > others of conformance with POSIX 1003.4a. What are the > differences/similarities ? > I don’t realy need the answer, but it might be interesting to know … First off, “conformance” to 1003.4a is a completely meaningless statement. There’s no such thing, because 1003.4a was never a standard. Furthermore, I strongly doubt that there ever *were* any implementations that could conform even if there was a way to apply meaning to the statement. 1003.4a was the original name of the thread standard — named for the fact that it was developed by the realtime group (POSIX working group designation 1003.4). However, it, like the original realtime standard, was really an amendment to the “base standard”, 1003.1. Eventually, POSIX decided to resolve the confusion by creating more — and renaming all O/S API standards into the 1003.1 space. Thus, 1003.4 became 1003.1b, 1003.4a became 1003.1c, 10
