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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:25PM (#34905932)
so what you're actually saying is that the POSIX elephant isn't (and hasn't been) actually standing on our necks after all?
Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by foobarian on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:49PM (#34906094)
I mean if what they want is a better standard, so there can be a dozen compliant operating systems we can all compile our stuff for, then maybe.

To look at things from another angle, what if having had POSIX all these years actually made things more uniform, in the sense that we didn't have variance between systems as large as e.g. between a BSD Unix and a Lisp machine? What if that were our choices today. As it is the largest mainstream departure is maybe Windows.

Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by jen20 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:00AM (#34910663)
None of the things mentioned are POSIX _or_ portable.