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There is another family of Unixlikes that has significant market share, and isn't chasing Linux's API changes.

• lmm 13y ago
  One that people use a POSIXy API to program for?
  • jfb 13y ago
    ~ » uname Darwin ~ » man shm_open SHM_OPEN(2) BSD System Calls Manual
    • lmm 13y ago
      There's another platform with a larger marketshare that has a POSIX API available too. The question is whether it's the API that developers for that platform actually use.
      • justincormack 13y ago
        It doesn't really have much of a POSIX API though. It could but it is very incomplete, deliberately, having just enough to bootstrap the other environment...