LSB 2.1 rc2 out; review extended to Jan 14

This is a reprint of the www.linuxbase.org article.
Sorry the inline links dropped out in the cut-n-paste,
please see the article for a copy with working links.


The LSB Project has issued a minor update to the LSB 2.1
specification release candidate as RC2. Please review=20
through Jan 14, 2005 at the Spec page under the Daily=20
Drafts section. Issues should be filed in the LSB Bugzilla
using 2.1 in the version field.

A minor update to LSB 2.1 rc1 has extended the review=20
period by an additional week. The changes from rc1 to=20
rc2 were the result of additional cross-testing by the
LSB project identifying some issues with the lsb headers
as included in lsb-build-base, but as these also show=20
up under "data definitions" in the specification, the=20
spec was respun. If you have already reviewed rc1,=20
these are the only changes in rc2:

   1. bug 321: add to SO_ACCEPTCONN, SO_RCVLOWAT,=20
      SO_SNDLOWAT, SO_RCVTIMEO, SO_SNDTIMEO, SOMAXCONN,
      SCM_RIGHTS
   2. bug 674: related to bug 321, RCVLOWAT, SNDLOWAT,=20
      RCVTIMEO, SNDTIMEO need processor-specific values,
      not generic (ppc32 and ppc64 differed from the others)
   3. bug 652: remove PTHREAD_MUTEX_TIMED_NP (NP =3D=20
      non-portable), replace its use in=20
      PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER with PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL

As before, reviewing aids include the LSB Errata document=20
(see link at the end of the Spec page), the LSB Buzilla,=20
bug 543 (Specification) and bug 609 (Development Environment),
as well as the informal diffmarked specifications - but note
that the latter were "fooled" by some style changes and make
it look like a lot more changed than was really the case.

For more on the LSB 2.1 project, see the Wiki page.=20