LSB v1.3 draft out for two week public review

The LSB workgroup has just released for public review its latest 
LSB v1.3 draft of the generic written specification and for IA32,
PPC32, and IA64.  The workgroup is soliciting comments from the 
community until Friday November 8th.

http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/

Specifically, regarding the gLSB, several interfaces were changed either 
to or from the LSB as the guiding specification based on issues which 
were raised with the LSB 1.2. The new reference more accurately describes 
these interfaces. Several interfaces were incorporated from the Li18nux 2000 
Specification to better support Internationalization and localization.
The descriptions of interfaces defined by the LSB have been clarified and
improved overall. The data definitions are more complete now. Some duplications 
were eliminated and some omissions have been included. Below are details of some 
of the changes:

NEW INTERFACES: 

touchline touchwin __isinf __isinff __isinfl __isnan __isnanf __isnanl asprintf
freeaddrinfo gai_strerror getaddrinfo getgrgid_r getgrnam_r getnameinfo
inet_ntop inet_pton isinff ngettext statvfs64 tdelete pam_acct_mgmt
pam_authenticate pam_chauthtok pam_close_session pam_end pam_fail_delay
pam_get_item pam_getenvlist pam_open_session pam_set_item pam_setcred
pam_start pam_strerror _Unwind_DeleteException _Unwind_Find_FDE
_Unwind_ForcedUnwind _Unwind_GetDataRelBase _Unwind_GetGR _Unwind_GetIP
_Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData _Unwind_GetRegionStart _Unwind_GetTextRelBase
_Unwind_RaiseException _Unwind_Resume _Unwind_SetGR _Unwind_SetIP,
and socket ioctl() commands

DEPRECATED INTERFACES:

__dcgettext alphasort alphasort64 endhostent fstatfs fstatfs64
gets sethostent setmntent statfs statfs64 waitid

NEW LIBRARIES:

libgcc_s (Unwind interfaces)
libpam

NEW SPECIFICATIONS:

RPM File Format

NEW ELF SECTIONS:

.jcr

Currently there are seven Linux releases from four distributions which are LSB v1.2 Certified.

http://www.freestandards.org/certification/

George (gk4)