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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by 1_player on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:02AM (#11653408)
> passing around all data as text is suboptimal

POSIX is not Unix.

Passing data around as text is a tenet of the Unix philosophy, while AFAIK POSIX doesn't mandate any of that.

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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by danieldk on Sunday May 08, 2016 @07:28AM (#11653584)
Actually it does, POSIX also specifies many of the standard (text-based) UNIX utilities:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/co...

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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by ZenoArrow on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:18AM (#11653443)
> "POSIX is not Unix."

"This is just one example of where the old ways aren't necessarily the best."

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