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Why is this relevant? Who is interested about such certification?
by tester756 2y ago
Why is this relevant?
Who is interested about such certification?
- Terretta 2y agoAnyone who either develops or requires POSIX (now UNIX) compliant services or tools?
- rzzzt 2y agoHistorically, the US Government. NIST mandated that only those operating systems should be used where existing applications can easily be ported to and fro, and POSIX compliant OS-s tick all the boxes. Windows NT got its POSIX subsystem for this reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
- throwaway48476 2y agoWhich was hobbled to the point of uselessness are purely a box ticking exercise.
- Animats 2y agoMost cross-platform applications for desktops and servers. If you write to the POSIX standard, it will work on a wide range of systems. Many applications don't need to go beyond that.