Ask HN: How important is Posix?

Re:Ask HN: How important is Posix? by ken on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:11PM (#425309)

Not very. Most Linux distros aren't POSIX (but oddballs like A/UX, Minix, and VxWorks are). The /etc tree isn't in POSIX, nor is less(1). POSIX doesn't even say that useful config data must be stored in text files.

It sounds like what you really mean is that you want Windows to be more like the other Unix-like systems you use. There's no standard for that.

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Re:Ask HN: How important is Posix? by eru on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:14PM (#425317)

There are standards. There just not called POSIX. For example the filesystem hierarchy standard.

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Re:Ask HN: How important is Posix? by makecheck on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:15PM (#425447)

Which by the way, is fully-documented here: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

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Re:Ask HN: How important is Posix? by jballanc on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:11PM (#425440)

Yeah, my example wasn't the greatest. I'd have said SUSv03, but I didn't think as many people would be familiar. Also, my desire for POSIX extends beyond command line to basic programming APIs. The deficiency of Windows just seems most readily apparent on the command line.

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