Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nwmcsween 4627 days ago
Because formal specs are open to interpretation, have you seen how much POSIX formal specs differ between operating systems?
1 comments

Sadly yes, as I wrote UNIX portable code in 1997 - 2002 timeframe.

Unfortunely many on HN tend to think all UNIX are alike, which just shows how little have experiece writing portable UNIX system software.