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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: POSIX
Message-ID: <2912@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Jul 89 09:44:39 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <10284@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
> what is POSIX?

POSIX is the IEEE P1003 standard.   It is an attempt to get rid of the the
4.3/5.3 split in the UNIX world and come to a single standard.  What the
standardization committee did was take all those features that were in Both
4.3 and 5.3 and put them in POSIX.  Of course, that was basically V7.
Ioctl and signals are different, and there is a little bit of new stuff,
but semantically, it is moderately close to V7.

That is why I like POSIX so much.  It is real UNIX, stripped of all the
barnacles that both AT&T and Berkeley have added to it.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)