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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