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Comment by immibis

11 hours ago

I'm not sure why you are blaming POSIX! The role of POSIX is to write down what is already common practice in almost all POSIX-like systems. It doesn't usually specify new behaviour.

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GTP  6 hours ago

I always assumed it was the other way around: a system follows POSIX to be POSIX-compliant.

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