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compliance
The testing and verification process that precedes X/Open licensing.
conformance
document
An implementor’s document that must accompany software claiming conformance with a POSIX
standard. The document specifies the behavior or other aspect of the software when the standard
describes a behavior or aspect as implementation-defined.
conformance
statement
questionnaire
(CSQ).
A document that identifies how a product implements X/Open Specifications as defined in XPG
Component/Profile Definitions. A CSQ exists for each branded product.
conformance.
Meeting the requirement of a specific standard.
conforming
POSIX.1
application using
extensions.
An application that does all the following:
Is a conforming POSIX.1 application.
•
•
Also uses features or facilities not described in ISO/IEC IS 9945-1:1990 (POSIX.1), but that
are consistent with the standard.
•
Meets the documentation requirements of a conforming POSIX.1 application and documents
its use of nonstandard features or facilities.
For example, an application using the tdm_fork() function could be a conforming POSIX.1
application using extensions.
conforming
POSIX.1
application.
An application that is either an ISO/IEC-conforming POSIX.1 application or a
national-standards-body conforming POSIX.1 application.
connectivity.
The ability of a system to transfer information between itself and a system from another vendor.
Contrast with
controlling process.
The session leader that established the connection to the controlling terminal. The session leader
stops being the controlling process when the corresponding terminal stops being the controlling
terminal.
controlling
terminal.
A terminal that might be associated with a session. A session can have only one controlling
terminal, and a controlling terminal can control only one session at a time. When a session has
a controlling terminal, all the following are true:
•
Certain character sequences entered from that terminal cause signals to be sent to all
processes in the process groups of that session.
•
Certain characters entered from that terminal might receive special treatment.
•
Members of background process groups of the session are restricted from certain kinds of
access to the controlling terminal.
See also
Coordinated
Universal Time
(UTC).
The standard measure of time from the beginning of the current Epoch. UTC is sometimes called
Universal Coordinated Time, CUT, or UCT; the standard appellation is abbreviated as UTC, an
arbitrary ordering of the letters. UTC was formerly called Greenwich mean time (GMT).
See also
.
core dump file.
See
core file.
See
creation version
serial number
(CRVSN)
A number assigned by the disk process when a file is created. The CRVSN is used by the disk
process and the Open System Services (OSS) name server to verify that access to the correct file
occurs. The CRVSN is stored in the catalog entry for a regular file and is passed to the disk
process when a Data Definition Language (DDL) request is made that involves the file.
CRVSN
See
creation version serial number (CRVSN)
.
CSQ.
See
conformance statement questionnaire (CSQ).
current working
directory.
The directory from which relative pathnames are resolved. A process always has a current working
directory.
See also
.
daemon
See
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