The C POSIX library is a specification of a
C standard library for
POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines both the system- and user-level application programming inter ...
systems. It was developed at the same time as the
ANSI C
ANSI C, ISO C, and Standard C are successive standards for the C programming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and th ...
standard. Some effort was made to make POSIX compatible with
standard C
ANSI C, ISO C, and Standard C are successive standards for the C programming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the ...
; POSIX includes additional functions to those introduced in standard C.
C POSIX library header files
References
Official List of headers in the POSIX library on opengroup.org*
Further reading
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