New International Standard: ISO/IEC 9945:2002

An anonymous reader writes "ISO/IEC and The Open Group announce international approval of the joint revision to POSIX® and the Single UNIX® Specification. More info here."

Comments

Re:Do standards cost to much for the open source?

[Confuse Ed]

If you follow through a few levels of links from the artice, the standard is available online (for free) at:

http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html

You have to register (your name and email address) and agree to some terms and conditions to be allowed to read it.

Interestingly they also thought it important to answer the seemingly pointless question : how many API's are there? with a bar chart showing the number in a variety of specifications!

Excellent

[drdink]

Personally, I think this is great. Bringing SUS and POSIX together will make things much more portable once people actually meet the standard. The alternative is to have 47,000 different standards that all specify different things and then when you, the programmer and/or user, build your system, you must choose which one you want to meet.