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If the POSIX committee couldn't deliver a solution that was modern and backwards compatible, what hope do we have that developers will selforganize and ever do

If the POSIX committee couldn't deliver a solution that was modern and backwards compatible, what hope do we have that developers will selforganize and ever do that?

pjmlp 7y ago
POSIX committee doesn't deliver anything. POSIX is just a common API across UNIX clones. And besides the AT&T original design, UNIXes have disagreed in almost everything else, hence UNIX wars.
- gtirloni 7y ago
  Q1. What is the Portable Application Standards Committee (PASC)? The IEEE Computer Society's Portable Application Standards Committee (PASC) is the group that has and continues to develop the POSIX family of standards. Historically, the major work has been undertaken within Project 1003 (POSIX) with the best known standard being IEEE Std 1003.1 (also known as POSIX 1003.1, colloquially termed "dot 1"). The goal of the PASC standards has been to promote application portability at the source code level. http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Examples of APIs actually proposed by POSIX, that weren't already in widespread use before adoption by standard updates?
    - gtirloni 7y ago
      I think you're just making my point.
      - pjmlp 7y ago
        Not really, last serious revision was in 2008, or so.