[J3] J3/WG5 <-> POSIX?

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Mar 5 09:30:15 EST 2018


I was reading a couple of articles
on why posix IO is so "bad" for HPC,
e.g. [1], which led me to IEEE 1003.1-2017,
"Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
Base Specifications, Issue 7",
which has a reference to Fortran...
 ANSI X3.9-1978 standard (FORTRAN 77).
A bit out of date.

Also, it appears IEEE 1003.9-1992
"POSIX FORTRAN 77 Language Interfaces—Part 1: Binding for 
System Application Program Interface (API)"
is still active.
Is that correct?

>From a quick search, the latest WG5 paper
with POSIX in the title is from 1996 - N1235,
to do with C binding.
J3 papers are harder to search, as there is no
single list.

I understand there is no J3 liason for POSIX now.
Was there ever a link from J3/WG5 and POSIX?
Do J3/WG5 care about the POSIX standard(s)?

Thanks

Anton

[1] https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/11/whats-bad-posix-io/



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