Austin Group Status Report July 2004
Andrew Josey
Austin Group Status Report Austin-217 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. July 16, 2004
The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical
working group established to consider the matter of a common revision
of ISO/IEC 9945-1, ISO/IEC 9945-2, IEEE Std 1003.1, IEEE Std 1003.2 and
the appropriate parts of the Single UNIX Specification. Having
completed the initial deliverable in late 2001, the group is presently
working on maintenance activities including producing two technical
corrigenda so far, and interpretations of the standard. The most
recent deliverable is the 2004 edition of the standard published on
April 30 2004.
The IEEE and The Open Group 2004 edition of the standard was published
April 30 2003, and replaces the previous two editions.
The 2004 Edition is formally known as:
IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition
The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications, Issue 6
Includes IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002
and IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004
and its worth noting that within the text the standard is still referred
to as IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
The standard is also an ISO/IEC international standard, denoted as ISO/IEC
9945:2003 and comprises four parts:
Part 1: Base Definitions
Part 2: System Interfaces
Part 3: Shell and Utilities
Part 4: Rationale
ISO/IEC has decided to publish technical corrigenda rather than
produce a new 2004 edition. The technical corrigenda
will have the designations
ISO/IEC 9945-1:2003/Cor.1:2004(E)
ISO/IEC 9945-2:2003/Cor.1:2004(E)
ISO/IEC 9945-3:2003/Cor.1:2004(E)
ISO/IEC 9945-4:2003/Cor.1:2004(E)
respectively. Final text has been submitted to ISO for publication.
IEEE and The Open Group have recently granted the FreeBSD project
permission to derive and excerpt manual pages from the standard.
Regular periodic teleconferences continue to be held to review new defect
reports (aardvark).
Further information on the Austin Group can be obtained at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/faq.html
The online version of the standard can be obtained at
http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html
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