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.B C11
This revision of the C language standard was ratified by ISO in 2011
.RI ( "ISO/IEC 9899:2011" ).
+.IP
+.B LFS
+The Large File Summit specification, completed in 1996.
+This specification defined mechanisms that allowed 32-bit systems
+to support the use of large files (i.e., 64-bit file offsets).
+See
+.UR https://www.opengroup.org\:/platform\:/lfs.html
+.UE .
.TP
.B POSIX.1-1988
This was the first POSIX standard,
@@ -191,7 +199,7 @@ This standard appeared in 1997.
Systems conforming to this standard can be branded
.IR "UNIX 98" .
See also
-.UR http://www.UNIX\-systems.org\:/version2/
+.UR http://www.unix.org\:/version2/
.UE .)
.TP
.B POSIX.1-2001, SUSv3
@@ -201,10 +209,8 @@ conducted under the auspices of the Austin Group
.UR http://www.opengroup.org\:/austin/
.UE .
The standard is available online at
-.UR http://www.unix\-systems.org\:/version3/
-.UE ,
-and the interfaces that it describes are also available in the Linux
-manual pages package under sections 1p and 3p (e.g., "man 3p open").
+.UR http://www.unix.org\:/version3/
+.UE .
.IP
The standard defines two levels of conformance:
.IR "POSIX conformance" ,
@@ -249,6 +255,9 @@ and TC2 in 2004.
.B POSIX.1-2008, SUSv4
Work on the next revision of POSIX.1/SUS was completed and
ratified in 2008.
+The standard is available online at
+.UR http://www.unix.org\:/version4/
+.UE .
.IP
The changes in this revision are not as large as those
that occurred for POSIX.1-2001/SUSv3,
@@ -296,6 +305,11 @@ Technical Corrigenda 1 and 2 applied.
.B SUSv4 2018 edition
This is equivalent to POSIX.1-2017, with the addition of
the XCurses specification.
+.PP
+The interfaces documented in POSIX.1/SUS are available as
+manual pages under sections 0p (header files), 1p (commands),
+and 3p (functions);
+thus one can write "man 3p open".
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR getconf (1),
.BR confstr (3),
@@ -307,7 +321,7 @@ the XCurses specification.
.BR posixoptions (7),
.BR system_data_types (7)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 5.09 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 5.10 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,