POSIX or "Portable Operating System Interface"
[1] is the collective name of a family of related
standards specified by the
IEEE to define the
application programming interface (API) for software compatible with variants of the
Unix operating system. Originally, the name stood for IEEE Std 1003.1-1988, which as the name suggests, was released in
1988. The family of POSIX standards is formally designated as IEEE 1003 and the international standard name is
ISO/
IEC 9945. The standards emerged from a project that began near
1985. The term POSIX was suggested by
Richard Stallman in response to an IEEE request for a memorable name; before that the standards effort was called IEEE-IX.
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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.
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