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Comment by GTP

4 months ago

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

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GTP

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immibis  4 months ago

It's both.

There are POSIX-specific standards (like pthreads) but they come about after other people invent threads and don't agree on an API.

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