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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by amiga386 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:34AM (#34907144)
It's arguable that macOS is actually POSIX compliant. I was frustrated that poll() simply refused to work on terminal devices in Mac OS X 10.1 and I had to use select() instead. And it's still not supported in macOS 13!

Can you claim POSIX compliance while actually not complying, by saying "BUG: currently doesn't comply" for more than 20 years?

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...

> BUGS > The poll() system call currently does not support devices.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/p...

> The poll() function shall support regular files, terminal and pseudo-terminal devices, FIFOs, pipes, sockets and STREAMS-based files.

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