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Standards 
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This chapter describes each of the standards which RTEMS tracks
API alignment with. As a general rules, these standards are related
to the POSIX or C programming language standards. Many are the result
of domain specific efforts to define subsets or profiles or the full
POSIX standard which are suitable for a specific domain. Each 
API set is considered a "profile" against which the full capability
set of RTEMS is evaluated.

The RTEMS Complete Profile is the complete set of POSIX, BSD, and
C programming language methods supported by RTEMS. This profile is
independent of any standard and represents a union of multiple
standards. For example, RTEMS supports BSD derived methods that
are not in POSIX.

The IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 API is the 2008 edition of the POSIX standard.
It is an update from the 2003 edition. Each edition of the POSIX standard
tends to add some methods, deprecate some methods, and obsolete
(e.g. remove) other methods.

PSE51 through PSE54 are Open Group defined profiles of the 2003 edition
of the POSIX standard. These profiles are:

* Profile 54 - Multipurpose

  * 1003.1-2003 Base Multi-process, Threads and File System

* Profile 53 - Dedicated

  * Multi-process, Threads and File System

* Profile 52 - Controller

  * Single Process, Threads, and File System

* Profile 51 - Minimal

  * Single Process, Threads, with No File System

The C99 Programming Language standard defines the Standard C Library. This
library is largely included by reference in the POSIX standard. 

The Open Group FACE Consortium has defined four POSIX profiles targetting
the avionics application domain. The FACE Technical Standard has been
through multiple revisions and the POSIX API profiles are identical in
Editions 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1. They are as follows:

* Security - 163 APIs, single process, no FILE *

* Safety Basic - 246 APIs, single process, some FILE *

* Safety Extended - 335 APIs, multi-process, more FILE *

* General Purpose - 812 APIs, multi-process, much more

RTEMS provides all of the methods required by the FACE Safety BASE profile
and all of the methods in the Safety Extended profile which do not require
multiple processes. Similarly, RTEMS provides most of the methods in the
General Purpose profile which do not require multiple processes.