data: POSIX
authorFrantišek Kučera <franta-hg@frantovo.cz>
Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:33:33 +0200
changeset 74834d32f01b00
parent 73 65a956596368
child 75 235a45774093
data: POSIX
data/dictionary.xml
     1.1 --- a/data/dictionary.xml	Fri Aug 16 14:15:38 2013 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/data/dictionary.xml	Fri Aug 16 14:33:33 2013 +0200
     1.3 @@ -1427,7 +1427,16 @@
     1.4  	</concept>
     1.5  	<concept>
     1.6  		<term abbreviation="POSIX" completeForm="Portable Operating System Interface" language="en"/>
     1.7 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
     1.8 +		<explanation language="en">
     1.9 +			<text>
    1.10 +				a family of standards for maintaining compatibility between operating systems;
    1.11 +				defines API, command line shells and utility interfaces
    1.12 +				and thus brings compatibility amog many variants of unix and unix-like operating systems;
    1.13 +				the name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman (the standards was formerly known as IEEE-IX);
    1.14 +				there are standards for e.g. process creation and control, signals, pipes, message passing, shared memory or semaphores;
    1.15 +				Examples of fully or mostly POSIX-compliant systems: AIX, IRIS, Solaris, OS X, GNU/Linux, BeOS (Haiku) or several BSD variants
    1.16 +			</text>
    1.17 +		</explanation>
    1.18  		<tag>computer</tag>
    1.19  	</concept>
    1.20  	<concept>