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POSIX is a millstone around the neck of the software industry. If you wanted to do something really new in operating systems, you might think "POSIX is insecu
by PaulHoule 6mo ago
POSIX is a millstone around the neck of the software industry.
If you wanted to do something really new in operating systems, you might think "POSIX is insecure" or "POSIX is bloated", etc. If you have a fundamentally different API though you have to write a whole new userspace. You're going to put in a POSIX personality so you can run bash and vim and nethack but once you do that you have the insecurity, bloat, etc.
- jnwatson 6mo agoPOSIX is backwards in so many ways. It freezes in time the OS innovations of the 70s.
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- robertdfrench 6mo agoI have a conspiracy theory, unsupported by facts, that Richard Stallman secretly invented POSIX as a way to get the proprietary UNIX vendors to waste time on something whose only value was to make it easier for folks to port their apps to GNUUUUUUUU/Linux.
- teddyh 6mo agoStallman only invented the name “POSIX”, not the standard itself.
- robertdfrench 6mo agothat's what Big POSIX wants you to think pal