posix in English

noun
1
a set of formal descriptions that provide a standard for the design of operating systems, especially ones that are compatible with Unix.
If the community can sort out some issues between Linux and Posix , the user community may choose to adopt those interfaces, but they will vote with their feet not in a consortium.

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1. Crypt is a POSIX C library function

2. POSIX signal handling is done in kernel space.

3. On all platforms, the Collations named default, C, and POSIX are available

4. POSIX systems support two basic modes of input: Canonical and nonCanonical

5. FreeBSD supports POSIX.1e ACLs on UFS, and NFSv4 ACLs on UFS and ZFS.

6. First of all, open source POSIX-oriented operating systems tend to bring out a different crowd.

7. This is the official Python agent for Auklet.It officially supports Python 2.7.9+ and 3.4-3.7, and runs on most POSIX-based operating …

8. Use POSIX regular expressions and corresponding variables to capture all or parts of Fields and combine the result in any order you wish.

9. This module contains an interface to those functions defined in the IEEE 1003.1 (POSIX.1) standards document which are not accessible through other means.

10. Ardour can be built and run on any operating system that: supports audio devices; can run JACK; provides most of the POSIX specification either directly or via glib

11. Cygnus was also the original developer of Cygwin, a POSIX layer and the GNU toolkit port to the Microsoft Windows operating system family, and of eCos, an embedded real-time operating system.

12. It's an excellent companion piece to the more broadly focused second edition.This book provides complete coverage of the gAwk 3.1 language as well as the most up-to-date coverage of the POSIX standard forAwk available anywhere.

13. Features such as the withdrawn POSIX draft ACL proposal and the withdrawn extended attribute proposal were generally implemented first on ext2 because it was relatively simple to extend and its internals were well understood.

14. Creating the Configure script Instead of writing the Configure script by hand, we need to create a Configure.ac file written in m4sh—a combination of m4 macros and POSIX shell script—to describe what the Configure script needs to do