Standards

Many customers rely on the Solaris operating environment as the foundation for mission critical applications. UNIX 98 branding shows Sun's continuing involvement in providing a stable operating environmnet.

UNIX 98 Branding

Solaris 7 software is branded UNIX 98 and includes the following changes to UNIX 95:

• Interfaces previously defined in the ISO POSIX-2 standard, C language binding, shared memory, enhanced internationalization, and the transfer of the X/Open UNIX Extension Freature Groups into the BASE

• The addition of threads and a Realtime Threads Feature Group to align with POSIX

• Multibyte extension (MSE) to align with the ISO/IEC

• Large file summit (LFS) extensions for support of 64-bit or larger files and filesystems

• X/Open-specific threads extensions and dynamic linking

• Year 2000 compliance