Xah Lee's Unixism

[Alan Balmer]

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:28:16 +0100, Rupert Pigott
<roo at try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Alan Balmer wrote:
>
>> Huh? Linux is only recently paying some attention to the POSIX
>> standards. I don't know the current level of compliance, though I'm
>
>Nah, that's been going on since at least 1994 when I installed it.
>
That's what I mean - it's been (and is still) "going on." It ain't
soup yet., and only recently (imo) has it been taken seriously. I
think pthreads were the defining point for me.

It is certainly not the case that Linux was written by following the
POSIX "recipe."

>> pretty sure that some parts of POSIX.4 have been implemented.
>
>God only knows, as long as it works I'm not complaining. :)
>
>Cheers,
>Rupert

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