• The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX; IPA: /ˈpɒz.ɪks/) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility...
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    writing regular expressions have existed since the 1980s, one being the POSIX standard and another, widely used, being the Perl syntax. Regular expressions...
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    Unix time (redirect from POSIX time)
    the next day). For example, this is what happened on strictly conforming POSIX.1 systems at the end of 1998: Unix time numbers are repeated in the second...
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  • Pthreads (redirect from Posix threads)
    In computing, POSIX Threads, commonly known as pthreads, is an execution model that exists independently from a programming language, as well as a parallel...
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  • The C POSIX library is a specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems. It was developed at the same time as the ANSI C standard. Some effort...
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  • in POSIX.1-1988 and later POSIX.1-2001, and became a format supported by most modern file archiving systems. The tar command was abandoned in POSIX.1-2001...
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    Unix shell (redirect from POSIX shell)
    since bash 4.2, also if invoked explicitly in POSIX compatibility mode (with options --posix or -o posix). Only in sh/ksh compatibility mode (when invoked...
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    Microsoft POSIX subsystem is one of four subsystems shipped with the first versions of Windows NT, the other three being the Win32 subsystem which provided...
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    Invoking Bash with the --posix option or stating set -o posix in a script causes Bash to conform very closely with the POSIX 1003.2 standard. Bash shell...
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    from the POSIX chair Andrew Josey for the symbolic price of one dollar.[citation needed] There have been some activities to make Linux POSIX-compliant...
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  • permissions. POSIX 1003.1e/1003.2c working group made an effort to standardize ACLs, resulting in what is now known as "POSIX.1e ACL" or simply "POSIX ACL"....
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  • Signal (IPC) (redirect from SIGINT (POSIX))
    inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous notification sent...
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  • ISO/IEC 15897 (redirect from Posix locale)
    cultural elements) is an ISO/IEC standard for the registration of new POSIX locales and POSIX charmaps. This standard is the result of a "fast-track" adoption...
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  • "target") by specifying a path thereto. Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS...
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  • modification from a de facto standard into a component of the POSIX specification. The term POSIX sockets is essentially synonymous with Berkeley sockets,...
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  • ||= << >> <<= >>= ?: are not available in POSIX bc. The sqrt() function for calculating square roots is POSIX bc's only built-in mathematical function...
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  • The Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) is an implementation of the POSIX Threads specification for the Linux operating system. Before the 2.6 version...
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  • to as permission-driven. Two types of permissions are widely available: POSIX file system permissions and access-control lists (ACLs) which are capable...
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  • besides a "minimal locale" name "C", although the POSIX format is a commonly-used baseline. On POSIX platforms such as Unix, Linux and others, locale identifiers...
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  • In modern POSIX compliant operating systems, a program that needs to access data from a file stored in a file system uses the read system call. The file...
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    This is a list of POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1-2024, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification...
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  • addressing EROS: a fast capability system POSIX "capabilities" in Linux: POSIX Capabilities & Files POSIX file capabilities: Parceling the power of root...
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    defined in POSIX in a way which is reasonably compatible, robust and performant, and to provide additional useful features not defined in POSIX, just as...
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  • SIGHUP (redirect from Signal 1 (POSIX))
    On POSIX-compliant platforms, SIGHUP ("signal hang up") is a signal sent to a process when its controlling terminal is closed. It was originally designed...
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    a digital copy of the POSIX standards documentation with a request to the comp.os.minix newsgroup. After not finding the POSIX documentation, Torvalds...
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    rewrite the tools to use the Win32 runtime environment, Cygwin implemented a POSIX-compatible environment in the form of a DLL. The brand motto is "Get that...
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  • meta information to an ASCII-based representation. cpio was removed from POSIX.1-2001 in favor of pax, a similar utility which had been introduced in the...
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  • Errno.h (category POSIX error codes)
    definitions from POSIX and GNU makes it even less portable than the sys_errlist table. The GNU C library (GLIBC) provides the additional POSIX error values...
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  • first appeared in Berkeley Software Distribution 4.2 (1983). It became a POSIX standard in 2000. The application programming interface has been ported...
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    build the final program from them, one could instead create a script for POSIX-compliant shells, here named build and kept in the directory with them,...
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