Posix is terrible. But I'm not sure we have anything better. MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS is also terrible of course, but even apart from that Win32 is not bright, at

Posix is terrible. But I'm not sure we have anything better. MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS is also terrible of course, but even apart from that Win32 is not bright, at all. The doc contains so little details (or worse is sometime even false) that the real doc when you start to ask serious questions is ReactOS, Wine, or even the NT/2000 source leaks, and then IDA. Compared to that, Posix is actually documented and implemented mostly correctly by tons of OSes. Its easy to ship an API with basically no spec (so nobody can tell you that there is a bug when they find one - actually even if there were some real specs about Win32 I think there is public no way to report bugs in there to MS!), and that does not have to be compatible with any other implementation...