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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by majewsky on Sunday September 03, 2017 @05:28PM (#15164024)
> instead of actually supporting POSIX

What do you mean? Using Linux kernel syscalls is just one of many ways to "actually support POSIX".

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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by pjmlp on Sunday September 03, 2017 @05:58PM (#15164168)
Syscalls are not POSIX APIs.

Do you know that by default GNU tools don't respect all POSIX expected behaviours and it needs to be explictly enabled?

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