The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition
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## 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 Stephane 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 Stephane 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 Stephane 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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