Re: Question about the availability of POSIX 2024 man pages

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 11:53:08AM +0100, Ole Wiedemann wrote:
> Dear Mr. Colomar,

Hello Ole,

> We are currently overseeing a university course on systems programming that
> uses the POSIX 2008 interfaces. There are some interfaces in the newer POSIX
> 2024 specifications that we would like to use, as they eliminate some common
> pitfalls. However, there are seemingly no man pages anywhere for the newer
> standard.
> 
> Thus I wanted to ask kindly if you have any idea when (or if) man pages for
> POSIX 2024 will be available?

Currently, there are no POSIX.1-2024 manual pages.

The main problem is that the POSIX sources are not public.  Michael, the
previous maintainer, had agreed (AFAIK) with POSIX to receive privately
a copy of POSIX (I don't know in which format; IIRC, it was HTML?), and
then run them through a script to produce the published POSIX manual
pages.  I find the burden of that to be too excessive.

If POSIX makes their roff sources public (preferably, in a git
repository) (not necessarily under a free software license, but publicly
readable), I'd be happy to work with those.  That depends on the
Copyright holders (IEEE and the Open Group).


> Kind regards,
> Ole Wiedemann

Have a lovely day!
Alex

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