The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition
Copyright© 2001-2016 The IEEE and The Open Group

Participants

The Austin Group

IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 was prepared by the Austin Group, sponsored by the Portable Applications Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society, The Open Group, and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22. At the time of approval, the membership of the Austin Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair

Donald W. Cragun, Organizational Representative, IEEE PASC

Nicholas Stoughton, Organizational Representative, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22

Mark S. Brown, Organizational Representative, The Open Group

Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

Austin Group Technical Reviewers

Theodore P. Baker

Hallvard B. Furuseth

Stephen Michell

Eric Blake

Michael Gonzalez Harbour

Matthew Rice

Andries E. Brouwer

Joseph M. Gwinn

Jörg Schilling

Mark S. Brown

Bruno Haible

Stephen Schwarm

David Butenhof

Mark Harris

Konrad A. Schwarz

Geoff Clare

Andrew Josey

Keld Simonsen

David N. Clissold

Michael Kerrisk

Nicholas Stoughton

Donald W. Cragun

David Korn

Alexander Terekhov

Lawrence D.K.B. Dwyer

Vincent Lefèvre

William L. Toth

Cynthia Eastham

Evan Liebovitch

Fred Tydeman

Paul Eggert

Wojtek Lerch

Mats Wichmann

Clive D.W. Feather

Jens Maurer

Garrett Wollman

Glenn Fowler

Roland McGrath

James Youngman

Cathy Fox

Jim Meyering


Working Group Members

William J. Ackerman

Karen Gordon

Jose Puthenkulam

Adewole Akpose

Randall Groves

G.K. Rajani

Butch Anton

Scott Gudgel

Chet Ramey

Peter Anvin

Joseph M. Gwinn

Matthew Rice

Jay Ashford

Charles Hammons

Gunnar Ritter

Theodore P. Baker

Mark Harris

Robert Robinson

Hugh Barrass

Barry Hedquist

Curtis Royster Jr.

William Bartholomew

Werner Hoelzl

Eusebio Rufian

Andy Bihain

David Hopwood

Wolfgang Sanow

Eric Blake

David P. Howell

Bartien Sayogo

Xie Bo

James Isaak

Nico Schottelius

Tomo Bogataj

Michael Jones

Stephen Schwarm

Walter Briscoe

Jaimon C. Jose

Konrad A. Schwarz

Andries E. Brouwer

Andrew Josey

Glen Seeds

Mark S. Brown

Piotr Karocki

M. Sekiguchi

David Butenhof

Sujit Madhavan Karataparambil

Al Simons

Juan Carreon

Michael Kerrisk

Keld Simonsen

Danila Chernetsov

Alexey V. Khoroshilov

Antonio Soares

Keith Chow

Akio Kido

Alexander A. Sortov

Jimmy Chun

William King

Thomas Starai

Geoff Clare

Klaus Klein

Nicholas Stoughton

Tommy Cooper

David Korn

Ienup Sung

Jeffrey L. Copeland

Wayne Krone

Alfred Mieczyslaw Szmidt

Donald W. Cragun

Thomas Kurihara

Alexander Terekhov

Dragan S. Cvetkovic

Susan Land

Donn Terry

Lee Damico

Kenneth Lang

Michael Thomadakis

Juan A. de la Puente

Shawn Leard

John Thywissen

David Dice

Solomon Lee

Leon Toh

Thomas Dickey

Fernando Lucas Rodriguez

William L. Toth

Loic Domaigne

William Lumpkins

Miloslav Trmač

Steven J. Dovich

Scott Lurndal

Fred Tydeman

Ulrich Drepper

Lieven Marchand

Mark-Rene Uchida

Sourav Dutta

Roger Marquis

Steve Valentine

Lawrence D.K.B. Dwyer

Roger J. Martin

Peter Van Der Veen

Paul Eggert

Jack Mccann

Fred Web

Daniel M. Eischen

Mick Meaden

Tao Weijian

Marc Emmelmann

Jim Meyering

David Wexelblat

Laura Fairhead

Gary Michel

Mats Wichmann

Joanna Farley

Hai Ming Li

Robert Wilkens

Clive D.W. Feather

Wilhelm Mueller

Martin Wille

John Fendrich

Bruce Muschlitz

Matt Wilson

Yaacov Fenster

Erik Naggum

Michael Wilson

Andrew Fieldsend

Gergely Nagy

Jim Wise

Glenn Fowler

Michael S. Newman

Song Wonchang

Cathy Fox

Liviu Nicoara

Shao A. Wu

Jesus Fuente

Robert Nordier

Oren Yuen

Mark Funkenhauser

Peter Petrov

Janusz Zalewski

Michael Geipel

Frank Prindle

Jim Zepeda

Michael Gonzalez Harbour

Vikram Punj

Jason Zions

The Open Group

When The Open Group approved the Base Specifications, Issue 7 on 24 July 2008, the membership of the Base Working Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair

Mark S. Brown, Vice Chair and Austin Group Liaison

Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

Base Working Group Members

Basabi Bhattacharya

Donald W. Cragun

Robbin Kawabata

Mark S. Brown

Ulrich Drepper

Craig Mohrman

David Butenhof

Lawrence D.K.B. Dwyer

Nicholas Stoughton

April Chin

Cynthia Eastham

William L. Toth

Geoff Clare

Roger Faulkner

Kenjiro Tsuji

David N. Clissold

Carol Fields

Kevin Van Vechten

IEEE

When the IEEE Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 on 26 September 2008, the membership of the committees was as follows:

Portable Application Standards Committee (PASC)

Lowell G. Johnson, Chair

Joseph M. Gwinn, Vice Chair

Jay Ashford, Functional Chair (Balloting)

Andrew Josey, Functional Chair (Interpretations)

Curtis Royster Jr., Functional Chair (Logistics)

Nicholas Stoughton, Secretary

Balloting Committee

The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.

William J. Ackerman

Andrew Fieldsend

Gary Michel

Adewole Akpose

Michael Geipel

Bruce Muschlitz

Butch Anton

Randall Groves

Michael S. Newman

Jay Ashford

Scott Gudgel

Peter Petrov

Hugh Barrass

Joseph M. Gwinn

Vikram Punj

Andy Bihain

Charles Hammons

Jose Puthenkulam

Tomo Bogataj

Michael Gonzalez Harbour

Robert Robinson

Mark S. Brown

Barry Hedquist

Fernando Lucas Rodriguez

Juan Carreon

Werner Hoelzl

Bartien Sayogo

Danila Chernetsov

Andrew Josey

Stephen Schwarm

Keith Chow

Piotr Karocki

Thomas Starai

Tommy Cooper

Thomas Kurihara

John Thywissen

Donald W. Cragun

Susan Land

Mark-Rene Uchida

Ulrich Drepper

Kenneth Lang

Robert Wilkens

Souray Dutta

Shawn Leard

Oren Yuen

Marc Emmelmann

William Lumpkins

Janusz Zalewski

John Fendrich

Roger J. Martin




IEEE-SA Standards Board

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 26 September 2008, it had the following membership:

Robert M. Grow, Chair

Tom A. Prevost, Vice Chair

Steve M. Mills, Past Chair

Judith Gorman, Secretary

Victor Berman

James Hughes

Chuck Powers

Richard DeBlasio

Richard H. Hulett

Narayanan Ramachandran

Andrew Drozd

Young Kyun Kim

Jon Walter Rosdahl

Mark Epstein

Joseph L. Koepfinger *

Anne-Marie Sahazizian

Alexander Gelman

John Kulick

Malcolm V. Thaden

William R. Goldbach

David J. Law

Howard L. Wolfman

Arnold M. Greenspan

Glenn Parsons

Don Wright

Kenneth S. Hanus

Ronald C. Petersen


* Member Emitirus


Also included are the following non-voting IEEE-SA Standards Board liaisons:

Satish K. Aggarwal, NRC Representative

Michael H. Kelley, NIST Representative

Don Messina, IEEE Standards Program Manager, Document Development

Michael Kipness, IEEE Standards Program Manager, Technical Program Development




IEEE Std 1003.1TM-2008/Cor 1-2013 was prepared by the Austin Group, sponsored by the Portable Applications Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society, The Open Group, and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22.

The Austin Group

At the time of approval, the membership of the Austin Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair

Donald W. Cragun, Organizational Representative, IEEE PASC

Nicholas Stoughton, Organizational Representative, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22

Mark S. Brown, Organizational Representative, The Open Group

Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

Austin Group Technical Reviewers
Eric Blake
Paolo Bonzini
Mark S. Brown
Geoff Clare
Donald W. Cragun
Ulrich Drepper
Laszlo Ersek
Hal Finkel
Mark Harris
Tom Honermann

Ross Johnson
Andrew Josey
Alexey Khoroshilov
Antoine Leca
Vincent Lefèvre
Matt McCutchen
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Peter O'Gorman
Peter Petrov
James C. Pugsley

Jörg Schilling
Ed Schouten
Konrad Schwarz
Martin Sebor
Nicolas Sitbon
Nicholas Stoughton
Jilles Tjoelker
Nathan Weeks
David A. Wheeler

Working Group Members

Hans Aberg
Eitan Adler
Tanaka Akira
Matthias Andree
Matt W. Benjamin
Guido Berhoerster
Eric Blake
Hans Boehm
Paolo Bonzini
Davide Brini
Andries E. Brouwer
Mark S. Brown
David Butenhof
Albert Cahalan
Stéphane Chazelas
Geoff Clare
Garrett Cooper
Donald W. Cragun
Matthew Dempsky
Casper Dik
Niall Douglas
Ulrich Drepper
Lawrence D.K.B. Dwyer
Paul Eggert
Julian Elischer
Laszlo Ersek
Bruce Evans
Sean C. Farley
Hal Finkel
Glenn Fowler

Mike Frysinger
Pierre Gaston
Thorsten Glaser
Philip Guenther
Bruno Haible
Mark Harris
David Holland
Tom Honermann
Ross Johnson
Andrew Josey
Dan Kegel
Michael Kerrisk
Alexey Khoroshilov
Josh Knight
Jonathan A. Kollasch
Bruce Korb
David Korn
Terry Lambert
Antoine Leca
Vincent Lefèvre
Wojtek Lerch
Scott Lurndal
Roger Marquis
Matt McCutchen
Esmaeil Mirzaee
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Joseph S. Myers
Alexander Nasonov
Jonathan Nieder
Carlos O’Donell

Peter O'Gorman
Peter Petrov
Wayne Pollock
James C. Pugsley
Chet Ramey
Xavier Roche
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Bart Schaefer
Jörg Schilling
Nico Schottelius
Ed Schouten
Konrad Schwarz
Jens Schweikhardt
Martin Sebor
Glen Seeds
Thor Lancelot Simon
Keld Simonsen
Nicolas Sitbon
Johannes Sixt
Paul Smith
Nicholas Stoughton
Marcel Telka
Jilles Tjoelker
Fred J. Tydeman
Nathan Weeks
David A. Wheeler
Mats D Wichmann
Garrett Wollman
Jörg Wunsch

The Open Group

When The Open Group approved the Base Specifications, Issue 7, Technical Corrigendum 1 on 25 October 2012, the membership of The Open Group Base Working Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair

Mark S. Brown, Vice Chair and Austin Group Liaison

Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

Base Working Group Members

Eric Blake
Mark S. Brown
David Butenhof
Geoff Clar

Donald W. Cragun
Lawrence D.K.B. Dwyer
Darrin Johnson
James C. Pugsley

William L. Toth
Kevin Van Vechten

IEEE

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 6 February 2013, the membership of the committees was as follows:

Portable Application Standards Committee (PASC)

Joseph M. Gwinn,  Chair

Andrew Josey, Functional Chair (Interpretations)

Curtis Royster Jr., Functional Chair (Logistics)

Nicholas Stoughton, Secretary

Balloting Committee

The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.

Mark S. Brown
Michael Browne
Keith Chow
Donald W. Cragun
Thomas Dineen
Andrew Fieldsend
David Fuschi

Randall Groves
Joseph Gwinn
Werner Hoelzl
Andrew Josey
Piotr Karocki
Fernando Lucas Rodriguez
Greg Luri

Peter Petrov
Bartien Sayogo
Stephen Schwarm
Gil Shultz
Walter Struppler
Oren Yuen


IEEE-SA Standards Board

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 6 February 2013, it had the following membership:

John Kulick, Chair

Richard H. Hulet, Past Chair

Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary

Masayuki Ariyoshi
Peter Balma
Farooq Bari
Ted Burse
Wael William Diab
Stephen Dukes
Jean-Philippe Faure
Alexander Gelman

Mark Halpin
Gary Hoffman
Paul Houzé
Jim Hughes
Michael Janezic
Joseph L. Koepfinger*
David J. Law
Oleg Logvinov

Ron Petersen
Gary Robinson
Jon Walter Rosdahl
Adrian Stephens
Peter Sutherland
Yatin Trivedi
Phil Winston
Yu Yuan

* Member Emitirus


Also included are the following non-voting IEEE-SA Standards Board liaisons:

Richard DeBlasio, DOE Representative

Michael Janezic, NIST Representative

Don Messina, IEEE Standards Program Manager, Document Development

Michael Kipness, IEEE Standards Program Manager, Technical Program Development




IEEE Std 1003.1™-2008/Cor 2-2016 was prepared by the Austin Group, sponsored by the Portable Applications Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society, The Open Group, and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22.

The Austin Group

At the time this IEEE standard was completed, the Austin Group had the following membership:

Andrew Josey,Chair
Donald W. Cragun, Organizational Representative, IEEE PASC
Nicholas M. Stoughton, Organizational Representative, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Roger Faulkner, Organizational Representative, The Open Group
Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

Austin Group Technical Reviewers

Bogdan Barbu

Eric Blake

Harvey Block

Mark S. Brown

Milan Cermak

Stéphane Chazelas

Alexander Cherepanov

Mark Clancy

Geoff Clare

David Clissold

Alan Coopersmith

Donald W. Cragun

Matthew Dempsky

Dan Douglas

Lawrence D.K.B. Dwyer

Paul Eggert

Steve Emmerson

David Egan Evans

Roger Faulkner

Richard Felker

Thorsten Glaser

Glenn D. Golden

Jim Grisanzio

Philip Guenther

Richard Hansen

Mark Harris

Cyril Hrubis

Jarmo Jaakkola

Felix Janda

Aurelio Jargas

Andrew Josey

John Kearney

Michael Kerrisk

Rob King

Andi Kleen

Bruce Korb

Kaz Kylheku

Antoine Leca

Wojtek Lerch

Sven Mascheck

Margot Hackett Miller

Joseph S. Myers

Szabolcs Nagy

Alexander Nasonov

Jonathan Nieder

Danny Niu

Gian Ntzik

Steffen Nurpmeso

Carlos O’Donell

Vladimir Támara Patiño

Peter Petrov

William Pitcock

Jim Pryor

James C. Pugsley

Yury Pukhalsky

Steve Rago

Chet Ramey

Martin Řehák

Torvald Riegel

Xavier Roche

Askar Safin

Anton Salikhmetov

Jörg Schilling

Ed Schouten

Konrad Schwarz

Jens Schweikhardt

Mike Scudder

Martin Sebor

Nicholas M. Stoughton

Keith Thompson

Jilles Tjoelker

William Toth

Daniel Trebbien

Miloslav Trmac

Fred J. Tydeman

Ted Unangst

Brian Utterback

Stijn van Drongelen

Jonathan Wakely

Nathan Weeks

Florian Weimer

David A. Wheeler

Michael Wilson

André Zepezauer

Mark Ziegast

Austin Group Working Group Members

Eitan Adler

Iwan Aucamp

Bogdan Barbu

David Bartley

Steve Bartolomei

Fabrice Bauzac

Guido Berhoerster

Eric Blake

Harvey Block

Hans Boehm

Bill Bogstad

Pádraig Brady

Davide Brini

Andries E. Brouwer

Mark S. Brown

David Butenhof

Milan Cermak

Stéphane Chazelas

Alexander Cherepanov

Mark Clancy

Geoff Clare

David Clissold

Alan Coopersmith

Donald W. Cragun

Martijn Dekker

Matthew Dempsky

Thomas E. Dickey

Casper Dik

Dan Douglas

Niall Douglas

Ulrich Drepper

Lawrence D.K.B. Dwyer

Paul Eggert

Daniel Eischen

Robert Elz

Steve Emmerson

Laszlo Ersek

Bruce Evans

David Egan Evans

Roger Faulkner

Richard Felker

Jeffrey K. Fellin

Hal Finkel

Glenn Fowler

Cathy Fox

Mike Frysinger

Andrea Giugliano

Thorsten Glaser

Glenn D. Golden

Jim Grisanzio

Philip Guenther

Joseph M. Gwinn

Bruno Haible

Richard Hansen

Mark Harris

Barry E. Hedquist

David Holland

Tom Honermann

Cyril Hrubis

Jarmo Jaakkola

Felix Janda

Aurelio Jargas

Ross Johnson

Andrew Josey

John Kearney

Dan Kegel

Michael Kerrisk

Rob King

Tomas Klacko

Andi Kleen

Bruce Korb

David Korn

Kaz Kylheku

Rob Landley

Antoine Leca

Vincent Lefèvre

Sean Leonard

Wojtek Lerch

Yonggang Luo

Scott Lurndal

Roger Marquis

Sven Mascheck

Per Mildner

Margot Hackett Miller

Joseph S. Myers

Szabolcs Nagy

Alexander Nasonov

Jonathan Nieder

Danny Niu

Gian Ntzik

Steffen Nurpmeso

Carlos O’Donell

Isabella Parakiss

Vladimir Támara Patiño

Phil Pennock

Andres Perera

Peter Petrov

William Pitcock

Wayne Pollock

Jim Pryor

James C. Pugsley

Yury Pukhalsky

Steve Rago

Chet Ramey

Martin Řehák

Tom Ridge

Torvald Riegel

Xavier Roche

Askar Safin

Anton Salikhmetov

Jörg Schilling

Ed Schouten

Konrad Schwarz

Ingo Schwarze

Jens Schweikhardt

Mike Scudder

Martin Sebor

Glen Seeds

Jeffrey Sheinberg

Thor Lancelot Simon

Keld Simonsen

Ranjit Singh

Paul Smith

Steven Stewart-Gallus

Nicholas M. Stoughton

Alfred M. Szmidt

Marcel Telka

Donn Terry

Keith Thompson

Jilles Tjoelker

William Toth

Daniel Trebbien

Miloslav Trmac

Fred J. Tydeman

Ted Unangst

Brian Utterback

Stijn van Drongelen

Christopher Vance

Jonathan Wakely

Nathan Weeks

Florian Weimer

David A. Wheeler

Mats D. Wichmann

Michael Wilson

Garrett Wollman

Jörg Wunsch

James Youngman

André Zepezauer

Mark Ziegast


The Open Group

When The Open Group approved the Base Specifications, Issue 7, Technical Corrigendum 2 on 20 June 2016, the membership of The Open Group Base Working Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair
Roger Faulkner, Austin Group Liaison
Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

Base Working Group Members

Eric Blake

Geoff Clare

David Clissold

Donald W. Cragun

Roger Faulkner

Darrin Johnson

Andrew Josey

Martin Řehák

S. R. Srinivasan

IEEE

At the time this standard was submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board for approval, the Portable Applications Standards Committee had the following membership:

Joseph M. Gwinn, Chair
Andrew Josey, Functional Chair (Interpretations)
Donald W. Cragun, Shell and Utilities Working Group Chair
Barry Hedquist, Test Methods Working Group Chair
Craig Meyers, Distributed Services Working Group Chair
Stephen Walli, US TAG Institutional Representative
Roger Martin, Ex-officio Emeritus
Nicholas M. Stoughton, Secretary

Balloting Committee

The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.

Johann Amsenga

Juan Carreon

Keith Chow

Donald W. Cragun

Sourav Dutta

Andrew Fieldsend

David Fuschi

Randall Groves

Joseph M. Gwinn

Barry E. Hedquist

Werner Hoelzl

Noriyuki Ikeuchi

Andrew Josey

Piotr Karocki

Kenneth Lang

Vincent Lefèvre

Peter Petrov

Stephen Schwarm

Walter Struppler

Mark-Rene Uchida

Oren Yuen

IEEE-SA Standards Board

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 30 June 2016, it had the following membership:

Jean-Philippe Faure,Chair
Ted Burse, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary

Chuck Adams

Masayuki Ariyoshi

Stephen Dukes

Jianbin Fan

J. Travis Griffith

Ronald W. Hotchkiss

Gary Hoffman

Michael Janezic

Joseph L. Koepfinger*

Hung Ling

Kevin Lu

Annette D. Reilly

Gary Robinson

Mehmet Ulema

Yingli Wen

Howard Wolfman

Don Wright

Yu Yuan

Daidi Zhong

* Member Emeritus




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