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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by pjmlp on Monday September 26, 2016 @05:54PM (#12585922)
I think of POSIX as the actual C runtime.
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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by iamcreasy on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:44PM (#12590947)
Isn't POSIX just a specification?
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Re:Introducing .NET Standard by pjmlp on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:33AM (#12595819)
Yes, just like ANSI C is one.

The point being that ANSI C didn't took the rest of UNIX APIs to other OSes as part of the specification, but in the end most OSes that adopted C ended up having to support POSIX as well as a means to have some kind of usable C library common across OSes.

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