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So what happens now that systemd is dragging Linux away from POSIX compatibility?

• mcguire 9y ago
  POSIX itself doesn't matter (it really hasn't since there were competing UNIXes and portability was important.)
  • JdeBP 9y ago
    POSIX is an interface contract between users/programmers and the operating system, and very much matters.
    • pjmlp 9y ago
      Not really, nowadays Linux compatibly seems more relevant than plain old POSIX, and even then only when coding in C or C++. "POSIX Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, and the Missing" http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nsl/papers/2016/posix.eurosys16.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nsl/papers/2016/posix.eurosys16.p...