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The scope of this Technical Report is to identify areas of conflict between the Linux Standard Base (LSB3) 3.1 specification (ISO/IEC 23360) and the ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX) standard. It is based on the Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1, which was submitted to ISO/IEC on 2005-10-31 for publication as ISO/IEC 23360; and ISO/IEC 9945:2003 edition dated 2003-08-15 with ISO/IEC 9945:2003/Cor.1:2004 (published 2004-09-15). The audience for this Technical Report is the technical workgroups that develop the standards; that is, the Austin Group and the Linux Standard Base workgroup. It is also intended to be of interest to systems engineers, technical managers and procurement officers. This document is organized in the following clauses: - Clause 2 provides a list of normative references; - Clause 3 provides the terms and definitions used in this document; - Clause 4 provides a list of differences that could be possible conflicts or extensions in the System Interfaces; - Clause 5 provides a list of differences that could be possible conflicts or extensions in the Shell and Utilities; - Appendix A provides background information on the POSIX standards and the LSB.