Last updated: 10 April, 2002

The FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project aims to implement all requirements of the ISO 9899:1999 (C99) and IEEE 1003.1-2001 (POSIX) standards. In cases where aspects of these standards cannot be followed, those aspects will be documented in the c99(7) or posix(7) manuals. It is also an aim of this project to implement regression tests to ensure correctness whenever possible.

All of the initial development will take place in the 5.0-CURRENT branch and hopefully most of the changes will eventually be merged into the 4-STABLE branch. Since this is a rather large project and is being done on a volunteer basis, there is no set schedule.

The project is always looking for additional contributors. If you wish to participate, the best way to find out what is happening is to subscribe to the freebsd-standards mailing list. If you are working on a specific task relating to the project, you should contact mike@FreeBSD.org with a description of the task so that your task can be listed below.

• ISO/IEC 9899:1999, also known as C99, is available for purchase in electronic form from the American National Standards Institute, or available from the International Organization for Standardization store in electronic and paper form.

• IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 - The free (registration required), online version of POSIX.1-2001 and SUSv3 standard.

• Are you Ready For C99? - This article discusses some of the new features in C99.

• Most discussion relating to this project takes place on the standards@FreeBSD.org mailing list. To subscribe to the list, send a message to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "subscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the text.

• Jens Schweikhardt maintains a list with the current status of POSIX Utility Conformance in FreeBSD.

Task	Responsible	Last Updated	Status
			5.0	4.x
Documentation
Document standards conformity level of the API.		26 March 2002
Document thread safety and async-cancel safety.		26 March 2002
Create c99(7) and posix(7) manuals.		11 December 2001
Document in posix(7) that the batch job management utilities are available in the port net/generic-nqs.		11 December 2001
Functions and System Calls
Implement strerror_r().	Wes Peters	20 December 2001
Implement tgamma() based on Lite1's gamma().	Bruce Evans	27 March 2002
Add __func__ reporting to assert(3).	Jeroen Ruigrok	27 October 2001
Implement imaxabs(), imaxdiv(), llabs(), lldiv().	Mike Barcroft	14 November 2001
Implement atoll(), strtoimax(), strtoumax().	Bill Fenner	27 November 2001
Implement new C99 format types in printf(3).	Garrett Wollman, Bill Fenner	30 November 2001
Implement new format types in scanf(3).	Bill Fenner	26 October 2001
Implement strtof(), strtold().	Alexey Zelkin	20 December 2001
Investigate syncing strtod.c with David M. Gay (Lucent)'s sources.	Alexey Zelkin	11 December 2001
Implement getgrgid_r(), getgrnam_r().	Wes Peters	20 December 2001
Implement getpwnam_r(), getpwuid_r().	Wes Peters	20 December 2001
Implement new functions that appear in <complex.h>.	Mark Murray	6 February 2002
Implement new conversion specifiers (%j and %z) in printf(9).	Dima Dorfman	5 April 2002
Implement new functions that appear in <fenv.h>.	Bill Fenner	14 November 2001
Make non thread-safe functions thread-safe.		22 October 2001
Make functions async-cancel safe.		22 October 2001
Add restrict type-qualifier to functions that require it.		27 October 2001
Implement new POSIX format types in printf(3).		30 November 2001
Headers
Fix prototypes and hide non-conforming portions of header <arpa/inet.h>.	Mike Barcroft	19 February 2002
Add exposure control primitives to <sys/cdefs.h> (originally developed by Garrett Wollman).	Mike Barcroft	1 April 2002
Implement <sys/_types> to store shared MI types.	Mike Barcroft	1 April 2002
Implement header <strings.h>, and work out compatibility issues with header <string.h>.	Mike Barcroft	4 April 2002
Implement the <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> headers.	Mike Barcroft	1 March 2002
Implement new types and prototypes in header <complex.h>.	Mark Murray	6 February 2002
Hide non-conforming portions, add missing types to <sys/types.h>.	Mike Barcroft	1 April 2002
Reduce namespace pollution and add missing typedefs in <unistd.h>	Mike Barcroft	25 March 2002
Remove pollution and add missing macros to <netinet/in.h> and <netinet6/in6.h>.	Mike Barcroft	1 April 2002
Hide non-conforming portions, add missing types to <sys/un.h>.	Mike Barcroft	1 April 2002
Implement the header <fenv.h>.	Bill Fenner	14 November 2001
Miscellaneous
Obtain a copy of Proc. ACM SIGPLAN '90 (required for printf(3) %'f).	Bill Fenner	9 November 2001
Add regression test for each function.		17 November 2001
Utility Conformance
Add -o option and base64 decoding to the uudecode utility.	J. Mallett	26 March 2002
Add -m option and base64 encoding to the uuencode utility.	J. Mallett	26 March 2002
Improve join(1)'s POSIX.1-2001 conformance. (PR: 36072)	Tim Robbins	27 March 2002
Require atleast one file argument in paste(1). (PR: 36074)	Tim Robbins	1 April 2002
Add -a option to the split utility.	Tim Robbins	1 April 2002
Add the -i option to the patch utility.	J. Mallett	9 April 2002
Add -r and -t options to the at utility.	Joe Halpin	13 January 2002
Add -L option to the pwd utility.	Tim Robbins	4 February 2002
Fix exit status of the env(1) utility.	Tim Robbins	20 February 2002
Make expr(1) conform to POSIX.1-2001.	Garrett Wollman	24 March 2002
Add the -f and -p options to the pr utility. (PR: 36243)	Tim Robbins	31 March 2002
Add -n option and resolve other issues in the renice utility. (PR: 36950)	Peter Avalos, Maxim Konovalov	10 April 2002
Add missing options to the mailx utility.	Mike Heffner	22 December 2001
Add the pathchk utility.	Chuck Rouillard	2 January 2002
Add -n option to the nice utility.	Peter Avalos	13 January 2002
Add the tabs utility. (PR: 36126)	Tim Robbins	25 January 2002
Add -I and -L options to the xargs utility.	J. Mallett	27 January 2002
Add the -b and -s option to the fold utility. (PR: 36245)	Tim Robbins	31 January 2002
Add -m option to the wc utility.	Tim Robbins	1 March 2002
Add the -s option to the m4 utility. (PR: 36075)	Tim Robbins	4 February 2002
Add -C option to the tr utility.	Tim Robbins	9 February 2002
Implement the -m, -p, and -x options in the ls utility.	Kyle Martin	1 March 2002
Add missing components to the jobs utility.	Kyle Martin	5 March 2002
Add -t option to uuexpand(1) utility. (PR: 35621)	Tim Robbins	18 March 2002
Make printf(1) utility conform to POSIX.2 (1992). (PR: 35616)	Tim Robbins	18 March 2002
Implement the fuser utility. (PR: 36076)	Tim Robbins	24 March 2002
Add the c99 utility (similar to c89). (PR: 36087)	Tim Robbins	24 March 2002
Add missing options to the who utility. (PR: 36128)	Tim Robbins	24 March 2002
Implement the asa utility. (PR: 36130)	Tim Robbins	24 March 2002
Implement the csplit utility. (PR: 36191)	Tim Robbins	24 March 2002
Implement the locale and localedef utilities.	Alexey Zelkin	11 December 2001
Implement/import the SCCS development utilities: admin, delta, get, prs, rmdel, sact, sccs, unget, val		30 November 2001
Add -C and -T options to the ar utility.		30 November 2001
Add -L and -P options to the cd utility (shell built-in).		30 November 2001
Investigate importing the cflow utility from the ports collection.		30 November 2001
Add -p, -v, and -V options to the command utility (shell built-in).		30 November 2001
Bring the cp utility up to conformance.		30 November 2001
Implement the cxref utility.		30 November 2001
Work out conflicting -t option in the df utility.		30 November 2001
Document the -n option in the echo utility as being non-POSIX compliant.		30 November 2001
Add the -d, -h, and -M options and fix conflicting -i option in the file utility.		30 November 2001
Implement the iconv utility.		30 November 2001
Implement the -m, -w, and -t options in the lp utility.		30 November 2001
Bring the make utility up to conformance.		30 November 2001
Add -p option the more utility.		30 November 2001
Add the newgrp utility.		30 November 2001
Add missing options and resolve conflicting options in the nm utility.		30 November 2001
Add the -s, -A, -j, -N, and -t option to the od utility.		30 November 2001
Investigate adopting some of the POSIX options in the ps utility.		30 November 2001
Add the qsub utility.		30 November 2001
Add unimplemented features to the sh utility.		30 November 2001
Wide Character/String Support This area is managed by David E. Cross and Kelly Yancey. Changes to this section should be coordinated through them.
Implement wcstoimax(), wcstoumax().		11 October 2001
Implement wcrtomb().		27 November 2001

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The remainder of this page is structured as a reverse-chronological log.

• A new status report on the state of the project, covering December and January, has been produced.

• The Open Group has announced the completion of SUSv3 and POSIX.1-2001 and the availability of a free, online version of the specification.

• A new status report on the current state of the project has been produced.

• The IEEE Standards Board has approved the Austin Group Specification as IEEE Std 1003.1.

• The project mailing list has been moved from freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org to standards@FreeBSD.org.

• A status report on the current state of the project has been produced.

• This web page was created.

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