> I was there at the time. It was just an effort to get all of the Unix vendors on the same page so that the big commercial non-Unix OS vendor and their salesp

> I was there at the time. It was just an effort to get all of the Unix vendors on the same page so that the big commercial non-Unix OS vendor and their salespeople wouldn't eat the lunch of the high end workstation and server market. Precisely. Additionallly, criticizing the technical merits of an international standard established in 1997 is a disingenuous ordeal. If anyone actually has any meaningful and tangible technical issue to point out regarding POSIX, they should simply put forth an implementation that actually addresses the issues and use it as a basis for a discussion to update the standard. Standards are meant to be used as references, and therefore are meant to be updated when the need arises.