Why exception from os.path.exists()?

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jun 2 19:47:40 EDT 2018


Paul Moore wrote:
> Windows (the kernel) has the
> capability to implement fork(), but this isn't exposed via the Win32
> API. To implement fork() you need to go to the raw kernel layer. Which
> is basically what the Windows Linux subsystem (bash on Windows 10)
> does

What people usually mean by "POSIX compliant" is not "it's
possible to implement the POSIX API on top of it". By that
definition, a raw PC without any software is POSIX compliant.

-- 
Greg



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