The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6
IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition
Copyright © 2001-2004 The IEEE and The Open Group

## Participants

##### The Austin Group

This standard 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/WG15.

##### 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/SC22/WG15
Mark Brown, Organizational Representative, The Open Group
Cathy Hughes, Technical Editor

##### Austin Group Technical Reviewers

Peter Anvin
Bouazza Bachar
Theodore P. Baker
Walter Briscoe
Mark Brown
Dave Butenhof
Geoff Clare
Donald W. Cragun
Lee Damico
Ulrich Drepper
Paul Eggert
Joanna Farley
Clive D.W. Feather
Andrew Gollan

Michael Gonzalez
Joseph M. Gwinn
Jon Hitchcock
Yvette Ho Sang
Cathy Hughes
Lowell G. Johnson
Andrew Josey
Michael Kavanaugh
David Korn
Marc Aurele La France
Jim Meyering
Gary Miller
Finnbarr P. Murphy
Joseph S. Myers

Sandra O'Donnell
Frank Prindle
Curtis Royster Jr.
Glen Seeds
Keld Jorn Simonsen
Raja Srinivasan
Nicholas Stoughton
Donn S. Terry
Fred Tydeman
Peter Van Der Veen
James Youngman
Jim Zepeda
Jason Zions

##### Austin Group Working Group Members

Harold C. Adams
Peter Anvin
Pierre-Jean Arcos
Jay Ashford
Bouazza Bachar
Theodore P. Baker
Robert Barned
Joel Berman
David J. Blackwood
Shirley Bockstahler-Brandt
James Bottomley
Walter Briscoe
Andries Brouwer
Mark Brown
Eric W. Burger
Alan Burns
Andries Brouwer
Dave Butenhof
Keith Chow
Geoff Clare
Donald W. Cragun
Lee Damico
Juan Antonio De La Puente
Ming De Zhou
Steven J. Dovich
Richard P. Draves
Ulrich Drepper
Paul Eggert
Philip H. Enslow
Joanna Farley
Clive D.W. Feather
Pete Forman
Mark Funkenhauser
Lois Goldthwaite
Andrew Gollan

Michael Gonzalez
Karen D. Gordon
Joseph M. Gwinn
Steven A. Haaser
Charles E. Hammons
Chris J. Harding
Barry Hedquist
Vincent E. Henley
Karl Heubaum
Jon Hitchcock
Yvette Ho Sang
Niklas Holsti
Thomas Hosmer
Cathy Hughes
Jim D. Isaak
Lowell G. Johnson
Michael B. Jones
Andrew Josey
Michael J. Karels
Michael Kavanaugh
David Korn
Steven Kramer
Thomas M. Kurihara
Marc Aurele La France
C. Douglass Locke
Nick Maclaren
Roger J. Martin
Craig H. Meyer
Jim Meyering
Gary Miller
Finnbarr P. Murphy
Joseph S. Myers
John Napier
Peter E. Obermayer
James T. Oblinger

Sandra O'Donnell
Frank Prindle
Francois Riche
John D. Riley
Andrew K. Roach
Helmut Roth
Jaideep Roy
Curtis Royster Jr.
Stephen C. Schwarm
Glen Seeds
Richard Seibel
David L. Shroads Jr.
W. Olin Sibert
Keld Jorn Simonsen
Curtis Smith
Raja Srinivasan
Nicholas Stoughton
Marc J. Teller
Donn S. Terry
Fred Tydeman
Mark-Rene Uchida
Scott A. Valcourt
Peter Van Der Veen
Michael W. Vannier
Eric Vought
Frederick N. Webb
Paul A.T. Wolfgang
Garrett A. Wollman
James Youngman
Oren Yuen
Janusz Zalewski
Jim Zepeda
Jason Zions

##### The Open Group

When The Open Group approved the Base Specifications, Issue 6 on 12 September 2001, the membership of The Open Group Base Working Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair
Finnbarr P. Murphy, Vice-Chair
Mark Brown, Austin Group Liaison
Cathy Hughes, Technical Editor

##### Base Working Group Members

Bouazza Bachar Mark Brown Dave Butenhof Donald W. Cragun Larry Dwyer | Joanna Farley Andrew Gollan Karen D. Gordon Gary Miller Finnbarr P. Murphy | Frank Prindle Andrew K. Roach Curtis Royster Jr. Nicholas Stoughton Kenjiro Tsuji

##### IEEE

When the IEEE Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 on 6 December 2001, the membership of the committees was as follows:

##### Portable Applications Standards Committee (PASC)

Lowell G. Johnson, Chair
Joseph M. Gwinn, Vice-Chair
Jay Ashford, Functional Chair
Andrew Josey, Functional Chair
Curtis Royster Jr., Functional Chair
Nicholas Stoughton, Secretary

##### Balloting Committee

The following members of the balloting committee voted on IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention:

Harold C. Adams
Pierre-Jean Arcos
Jay Ashford
Theodore P. Baker
Robert Barned
David J. Blackwood
Shirley Bockstahler-Brandt
James Bottomley
Mark Brown
Eric W. Burger
Alan Burns
Dave Butenhof
Keith Chow
Donald W. Cragun
Juan Antonio De La Puente
Ming De Zhou
Steven J. Dovich
Richard P. Draves
Philip H. Enslow
Michael Gonzalez
Karen D. Gordon
Joseph M. Gwinn

Steven A. Haaser
Charles E. Hammons
Chris J. Harding
Barry Hedquist
Vincent E. Henley
Karl Heubaum
Niklas Holsti
Thomas Hosmer
Jim D. Isaak
Lowell G. Johnson
Michael B. Jones
Andrew Josey
Michael J. Karels
Steven Kramer
Thomas M. Kurihara
C. Douglass Locke
Roger J. Martin
Craig H. Meyer
Finnbarr P. Murphy
John Napier
Peter E. Obermayer
James T. Oblinger

Frank Prindle
Francois Riche
John D. Riley
Andrew K. Roach
Helmut Roth
Jaideep Roy
Curtis Royster Jr.
Stephen C. Schwarm
Richard Seibel
David L. Shroads Jr.
W. Olin Sibert
Keld Jorn Simonsen
Nicholas Stoughton
Donn S. Terry
Mark-Rene Uchida
Scott A. Valcourt
Michael W. Vannier
Frederick N. Webb
Paul A.T. Wolfgang
Oren Yuen
Janusz Zalewski

The following organizational representative voted on this standard:

Andrew Josey, X/Open Company Ltd.

##### IEEE-SA Standards Board

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 on 6 December 2001, it had the following membership:

Donald N. Heirman, Chair
James T. Carlo, Vice-Chair
Judith Gorman, Secretary

Satish K. Aggarwal
Mark D. Bowman
Gary R. Engmann
Harold E. Epstein
H. Landis Floyd
Jay Forster*
Howard M. Frazier
Ruben D. Garzon

James H. Gurney
Richard J. Holleman
Lowell G. Johnson
Robert J. Kennelly
Joseph L. Koepfinger*
Peter H. Lips
L. Bruce McClung
Daleep C. Mohla

James W. Moore
Robert F. Munzner
Ronald C. Petersen
Gerald H. Peterson
John B. Posey
Gary S. Robinson
Akio Tojo
Donald W. Zipse

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

Alan Cookson, NIST Representative
Donald R. Volzka, TAB Representative
Yvette Ho Sang, Don Messina, Savoula Amanatidis, IEEE Project Editors

IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002 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/WG15.

##### 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/SC22/WG15
Mark Brown, Organizational Representative, The Open Group
Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

##### Austin Group Technical Reviewers

Theodore P. Baker
Julian Blake
Andries Brouwer
Mark Brown
Dave Butenhof
Geoff Clare
Donald W. Cragun
Ken Dawson
Ulrich Drepper
Larry Dwyer
Paul Eggert
Joanna Farley
Clive D.W. Feather
Cathy Fox

Mark Funkenhauser
Lois Goldthwaite
Andrew Gollan
Michael Gonzalez
Bruno Haible
Ben Harris
Jon Hitchcock
Andreas Jaeger
Andrew Josey
Jonathan Lennox
Nick Maclaren
Jack McCann
Wilhelm Mueller
Joseph S. Myers

Frank Prindle
Kenneth Raeburn
Tim Robbins
Glen Seeds
Matthew Seitz
Keld Jorn Simonsen
Nicholas Stoughton
Alexander Terekhov
Donn S. Terry
Mike Wilson
Garrett A. Wollman
Mark Ziegast

##### Austin Group Working Group Members

Harold C. Adams
Alejandro Alonso
Jay Ashford
Theodore P. Baker
David J. Blackwood
Julian Blake
Mitchell Bonnett
Andries Brouwer
Mark Brown
Eric W. Burger
Alan Burns
Dave Butenhof
Keith Chow
Geoff Clare
Luis Cordova
Donald W. Cragun
Dragan Cvetkovic
Lee Damico
Ken Dawson
Jeroen Dekkers
Juan Antonio De La Puente
Steven J. Dovich
Ulrich Drepper
Dr. Sourav Dutta
Larry Dwyer
Paul Eggert
Joanna Farley

Clive D.W. Feather
Yaacov Fenster
Cathy Fox
Mark Funkenhauser
Lois Goldthwaite
Andrew Gollan
Michael Gonzalez
Karen D. Gordon
Scott Gudgel
Joseph M. Gwinn
Steven A. Haaser
Bruno Haible
Charles E. Hammons
Bryan Harold
Ben Harris
Barry Hedquist
Karl Heubaum
Jon Hitchcock
Andreas Jaeger
Andrew Josey
Kenneth Lang
Pi-Cheng Law
Jonathan Lennox
Nick Maclaren
Roger J. Martin
Jack McCann
George Miao

Wilhelm Mueller
Finnbarr P. Murphy
Joseph S. Myers
Alexey Neyman
Charles Ngethe
Peter Petrov
Frank Prindle
Vikram Punj
Kenneth Raeburn
Francois Riche
Tim Robbins
Curtis Royster Jr.
Diane Schleicher
Gil Shultz
Stephen C. Schwarm
Glen Seeds
Matthew Seitz
Keld Jorn Simonsen
Doug Stevenson
Nicholas Stoughton
Alexander Terekhov
Donn S. Terry
Mike Wilson
Garrett A. Wollman
Oren Yuen
Mark Ziegast

##### The Open Group

When The Open Group approved the Base Specifications, Issue 6, Technical Corrigendum 1 on 7 February 2003, the membership of The Open Group Base Working Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair
Finnbarr P. Murphy, Vice-Chair
Mark Brown, Austin Group Liaison
Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

##### Base Working Group Members

Mark Brown Dave Butenhof Donald W. Cragun Larry Dwyer Ulrich Drepper | Joanna Farley Andrew Gollan Finnbarr P. Murphy Frank Prindle Andrew K. Roach | Curtis Royster Jr. Nicholas Stoughton Kenjiro Tsuji

##### IEEE

When the IEEE Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002 on 11 December 2002, the membership of the committees was as follows:

##### Portable Applications Standards Committee (PASC)

Lowell G. Johnson, Chair
Joseph M. Gwinn, Vice-Chair
Jay Ashford, Functional Chair
Andrew Josey, Functional Chair
Curtis Royster Jr., Functional Chair
Nicholas Stoughton, Secretary

##### Balloting Committee

The following members of the balloting committee voted on IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention:

Alejandro Alonso
Jay Ashford
David J. Blackwood
Julian Blake
Mitchell Bonnett
Mark Brown
Dave Butenhof
Keith Chow
Luis Cordova
Donald W. Cragun
Steven J. Dovich
Dr. Sourav Dutta
Yaacov Fenster

Michael Gonzalez
Scott Gudgel
Charles E. Hammons
Bryan Harold
Barry Hedquist
Karl Heubaum
Lowell G. Johnson
Andrew Josey
Kenneth Lang
Pi-Cheng Law
George Miao
Roger J. Martin
Finnbarr P. Murphy

Charles Ngethe
Peter Petrov
Frank Prindle
Vikram Punj
Francois Riche
Curtis Royster Jr.
Diane Schleicher
Stephen C. Schwarm
Gil Shultz
Nicholas Stoughton
Donn S. Terry
Oren Yuen
Juan A. de la Puente

##### IEEE-SA Standards Board

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002 on 11 December 2002, the membership was as follows:

James T. Carlo, Chair
James H. Gurney, Vice-Chair
Judith Gorman, Secretary

Sid Bennett H. Stephen Berger Clyde R. Camp Richard DeBlasio Harold E. Epstein Julian Forster* Howard M. Frazier Toshio Fukuda | Arnold M. Greenspan Raymond Hapeman Donald M. Heirman Richard H. Hulett Lowell G. Johnson Joseph L. Koepfinger* Peter H. Lips Nader Mehravari | Daleep C. Mohla William J. Moylan Malcolm V. Thaden Geoffrey O. Thompson Howard L. Wolfman Don Wright

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

Alan Cookson, NIST Representative
Satish K. Aggarwal, NRC Representative
Savoula Amanatidis, IEEE Standards Managing Editor

IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004 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/WG15.

##### 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/SC22/WG15
Mark Brown, Organizational Representative, The Open Group

Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

##### Austin Group Technical Reviewers

Jay Ashford
Julian Blake
Mitchell Bonnett
Andries Brouwer
Mark Brown
Paul Buerger
Dave Butenhof
Keith Chow
Geoff Clare
Donald W. Cragun
Lee Damico
Maulik Dave
Juan A. de la Puente
Guru Dutt Dhingra
Loic Domaigne
Ulrich Drepper
Sourav Dutta
Larry Dwyer
Paul Eggert
Joanna Farley

Clive D.W. Feather
Yaacov Fenster
Mark Funkenhauser
Ernesto Garcia
Andrew Gollan
Michael Gonzalez
Jean-Denis Gorin
Matthew Gream
Scott Gudgel
Bruno Haible
Charles Hammons
Barry Hedquist
Jon Hitchcock
Lowell G. Johnson
Andrew Josey
Piotr Karocki
David Leciston
Ryan Madron
Roger J. Martin
George Miao

Rajesh Moorkath
Peter Petrov
Franklin Prindle
Vikram Punj
Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann
Joerg Schilling
Stephen Schwarm
Gil Shultz
Keld Simonsen
Nicholas Stoughton
Alexander Terekhov
Donn Terry
Mark-Rene Uchida
Thomas Unsicker
Scott Valcourt
Mats Wichmann
Garrett A. Wollman
Oren Yuen
Mark Ziegast

##### Austin Group Working Group Members

Harold C. Adams
Jay Ashford
Theodore P. Baker
David J. Blackwood
Julian Blake
Mitchell Bonnett
Andries Brouwer
Mark Brown
Paul Buerger
Alan Burns
Dave Butenhof
Keith Chow
Geoff Clare
Donald W. Cragun
Dragan Cvetkovic
Lee Damico
Maulik Dave
Juan A. de la Puente
Loic Domaigne
Steven J. Dovich
Ulrich Drepper
Guru Dutt Dhingra
Sourav Dutta
Larry Dwyer
Paul Eggert
Joanna Farley
Clive D.W. Feather
Yaacov Fenster

Mark Funkenhauser
Ernesto Garcia
Lois Goldthwaite
Andrew Gollan
Michael Gonzalez
Karen D. Gordon
Jean-Denis Gorin
Matthew Gream
Scott Gudgel
Joseph M. Gwinn
Steven A. Haaser
Charles Hammons
Ben Harris
Barry Hedquist
Karl Heubaum
Jon Hitchcock
Andreas Jaeger
Lowell G. Johnson
Andrew Josey
Piotr Karocki
Kenneth Lang
Pi-Cheng Law
David Leciston
Wojtek Lerch
Jonathan Lennox
Nick Maclaren
Ryan Madron
Roger J. Martin

George Miao
Rajesh Moorkath
Vilhelm Mueller
Joseph S. Myers
Peter Petrov
Franklin Prindle
Vikram Punj
Kenneth Raeburn
Tim Robbins
Curtis Royster Jr.
Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann
Joerg Schilling
Stephen Schwarm
Glen Seeds
Gil Shultz
Keld Simonsen
Nicholas Stoughton
Alexander Terekhov
Donn Terry
Mark-Rene Uchida
Thomas Unsicker
Scott Valcourt
Mats Wichmann
Mike Wilson
Garrett A. Wollman
Oren Yuen
Mark Ziegast
Jason Zions

##### The Open Group

When The Open Group approved the Base Specifications, Issue 6, Technical Corrigendum 2 on 18 December 2003, the membership of The Open Group Base Working Group was as follows:

Andrew Josey, Chair
Mark Brown, Austin Group Liaison

Cathy Fox, Technical Editor

##### Base Working Group Members

Mark Brown | IBM Corporation
Dave Butenhof | Hewlett-Packard Company
Donald W. Cragun | Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Larry Dwyer | Hewlett-Packard Company
Ulrich Drepper | Red Hat, Inc.
Joanna Farley | Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Andrew Gollan | Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Andrew K. Roach | Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Curtis Royster Jr. | US DoD DISA
Nicholas Stoughton | USENIX Association
Kenjiro Tsuji | Sun Microsystems, Inc.

##### IEEE

When the IEEE Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004 on 9 February 2004, the membership of the committees was as follows:

##### Portable Applications Standards Committee (PASC)

Lowell G. Johnson, Chair
Joseph M. Gwinn, Vice-Chair
Jay Ashford, Functional Chair
Andrew Josey, Functional Chair
Curtis Royster Jr., Functional Chair
Nicholas Stoughton, Secretary

##### Balloting Committee

The following members of the balloting committee voted on IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004. Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention:

Jay Ashford
Julian Blake
Mark Brown
Keith Chow
Donald W. Cragun
Juan A. de la Puente
Guru Dutt Dhingra
Ernesto Garcia
Michael Gonzalez
Jean-Denis Gorin

Matthew Gream
Scott Gudgel
Charles Hammons
Barry Hedquist
Andrew Josey
Piotr Karocki
David Leciston
Ryan Madron
Roger J. Martin
George Miao

Rajesh Moorkath
Peter Petrov
Vikram Punj
Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann
Stephen Schwarm
Gil Shultz
Mark-Rene Uchida
Thomas Unsicker
Scott Valcourt
Oren Yuen

##### IEEE-SA Standards Board

When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004 on 9 February 2004, the membership was as follows:

Don Wright, Chair
Judith Gorman, Secretary

Chuck Adams
H. Stephen Berger
Mark D. Bowman
Joseph A. Bruder
Bob Davis
Roberto de Boisson
Julian Forster*
Arnold M. Greenspan
Mark S. Halpin

Raymond Hapeman
Richard J. Holleman
Richard H. Hulett
Lowell G. Johnson
Hermann Koch
Joseph L. Koepfinger*
Thomas J. McGean
Steve M. Mills
Daleep C. Mohla

Paul Nikolich
T. W. Olsen
Ronald C. Petersen
Gary S. Robinson
Frank Stone
Malcolm V. Thaden
Doug Topping
Joe D. Watson

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

Satish K. Aggarwal, NRC Representative
Richard DeBlasio, DOE Representative
Alan Cookson, NIST Representative

Savoula Amanatidis, IEEE Standards Managing Editor

#### Footnotes

*
  Member Emeritus

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