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Isn't that the whole point of POSIX though?

pjmlp on March 2, 2017 [–]

ANSI C and POSIX aren't the same thing.

POSIX is more like the extended runtime that C needs to be portable outside UNIX walls, which isn't being fully implemented on iOS and Android.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine...

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