Definitions for "posix"
Public Open System Infrastructure for uniX, a integrated Application Server and Business Server to provide a enterprise e-business platform.
(n.) A standard of definition of the interface to the UNIX operating system.
The portable operating system interface specification defined by the US Government, in conjunction with XPG. There are multiple levels of non-compliance accepted, as with most standards with a lot of powerful vendors itching to be non-standard against the better interests of the entire community.
This patch adds the system calls timer_create, timer_delete, timer_settime, timer_gettime, and timer_getoverrun. The user space library adds also clock_gettime, clock_settime and clock_getres. CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_LINUX_COUNTER are supported.
Keywords:  revision
Revision $Revision: 1.51.2.4.2.1
Keywords:  gnu, bash, shell, section, called
the section called “Bash is the GNU shell