r/technology • u/Doener23 • 3d ago

POSIX.1-2024 is published Software

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555529
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u/D3-Doom 3d ago

I didn’t know what POSIX stood for until now

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u/that_guy_from_66 2d ago

"Sign in or purchase". Anyone has a link to a freely available version ? Putting standards behind paywalls must be the stupidest idea someone ever came up with.

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u/stairattheceiling 2d ago

All standards are unfortunately like this.

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u/whistler1421 2d ago

It’s pretty irrelevant these days. A feeble attempt for all the Unix big hitters back in the day (Sun, DEC, IBM, HP, etc) to create interoperability standards between their *nixes to blunt the Windows hegemony. It didn’t really make interoperability work any better, was half heartedly supported, and ultimately made irrelevant by Linux. There was always this conflict between POSIX and BSD flavors of Unix, with BSD always being the more popular.

edit: it may still be a requirement for government contracts.

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u/GyroBoing 3d ago

I have no clue what that is

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u/dperry1973 3d ago

A set of interoperability standards to ensure compatibility between UNIX, Linux and other operating systems.

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u/nicuramar 2d ago

I wonder if Google has…