POSIX

Proper noun

Meaning

POSIX

(computing) Acronym of Portable Operating System Interface: a set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability between UNIX variants.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem? Larry Wall

Cygwin also recognises NTFS junction points and symbolic links and treats them as POSIX symbolic links, but it does not create them as their semantics are not fully POSIX-compliant. Source: Internet

Attitudes across different computing platforms Unix programmers can combine command-line POSIX tools into a complete development environment, capable of developing large programs such as the Linux kernel and its environment. Source: Internet

Certified products can be found at the IEEE's website. citation POSIX-certified Some versions of the following operating systems have been certified to conform to one or more of the various POSIX standards. Source: Internet

Character classes apply to both POSIX levels. Source: Internet

Exactly which characters belong to the POSIX classes also varies. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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