[Nottingham] POSIX

Tom Allender nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Feb 18 14:46:01 2003


James Duncan wrote:

>> Hi, i'm not sure if anyone has heard of this (I've not really) but does
>> anyone know what POSIX is?
 >
> POSIX is a standard that *NIX operating systems (BSD, Linux, UNIX 
> proper) should meet to be considered properly UNIX compliant.
> 
> How's that for fast service?

Not bad. You sent your reply 51 minutes before he asked the question :)

Tom.