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by nine_k 1913 days ago
POSIX is thirty three years old.

Can we please consider certain modest improvements?

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The latest revision of the POSIX standard is only 4 years old.
And yet it is still all about writing CLI and server daemons, stuck in the early 80's timesharing computing world.
That is an odd comment to put using HTTP onto a process listening to port 443 so it can be stored by way of sending certain bytes to a different process listening to a port.
Except that the application that is able to display and understand what those magical HTTP contents mean isn't part of POSIX.