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-.TH STANDARDS 7 2012-08-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH STANDARDS 7 2014-01-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 standards \- C and UNIX Standards
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,7 +30,10 @@ various standards to which the documented interface conforms.
 The following list briefly describes these standards.
 .TP
 .B V7
-Version 7, the ancestral UNIX from Bell Labs.
+Version 7 (also known as Seventh Edition) UNIX,
+released by AT&T/Bell Labs in 1979.
+After this point, UNIX systems diverged into two main dialects:
+BSD and System V.
 .TP
 .B 4.2BSD
 This is an implementation standard defined by the 4.2 release
@@ -116,6 +117,10 @@ Available online at
 .UR http://www.open-std.org\:/jtc1\:/sc22\:/wg14\:/www\:/standards
 .UE .
 .TP
+.B C11
+This revision of the C language standard was ratified by ISO in 2011
+.RI ( "ISO/IEC 9899:2011" ).
+.TP
 .B POSIX.1-1990
 "Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments".
 IEEE 1003.1-1990 part 1, ratified by ISO in 1990
@@ -128,22 +133,22 @@ describing commands and utilities, ratified by ISO in 1993
 .RI ( "ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993" ).
 .TP
 .BR POSIX.1b " (formerly known as \fIPOSIX.4\fP)"
-IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993
+IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993,
 describing real-time facilities
 for portable operating systems, ratified by ISO in 1996
 .RI ( "ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996" ).
 .TP
 .B POSIX.1c
-IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995 describing the POSIX threads interfaces.
+IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995, which describes the POSIX threads interfaces.
 .TP
 .B POSIX.1d
-IEEE Std 1003.1c-1999 describing additional real-time extensions.
+IEEE Std 1003.1c-1999, which describes additional real-time extensions.
 .TP
 .B POSIX.1g
-IEEE Std 1003.1g-2000 describing networking APIs (including sockets).
+IEEE Std 1003.1g-2000, which describes networking APIs (including sockets).
 .TP
 .B POSIX.1j
-IEEE Std 1003.1j-2000 describing advanced real-time extensions.
+IEEE Std 1003.1j-2000, which describes advanced real-time extensions.
 .TP
 .B POSIX.1-1996
 A 1996 revision of POSIX.1 which incorporated POSIX.1b and POSIX.1c.
@@ -165,7 +170,7 @@ This is also referred to as
 where 1170 referred to the number of interfaces
 defined by this standard.
 .TP
-.B SUS  (SUSv1)
+.B "SUS (SUSv1)"
 Single UNIX Specification.
 This was a repackaging of XPG4v2 and other X/Open standards
 (X/Open Curses Issue 4 version 2,
@@ -187,7 +192,7 @@ See also
 .B POSIX.1-2001, SUSv3
 This was a 2001 revision and consolidation of the
 POSIX.1, POSIX.2, and SUS standards into a single document,
-conducted under the auspices of the Austin group
+conducted under the auspices of the Austin Group
 .UR http://www.opengroup.org\:/austin/
 .UE .
 The standard is available online at
@@ -261,10 +266,24 @@ In general, where the CONFORMING TO section of a manual page
 lists POSIX.1-2001, it can be assumed that the interface also
 conforms to POSIX.1-2008, unless otherwise noted.
 
-Further information can be found on the Austin group web site,
+Technical Corrigendum 1 (minor fixes and improvements)
+of this standard was released in 2013
+(referred to as
+.IR POSIX.1-2013 ).
+
+Further information can be found on the Austin Group web site,
 .UR http://www.opengroup.org\:/austin/
 .UE .
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR feature_test_macros (7),
 .BR libc (7),
 .BR posixoptions (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.