Ars Technica

What is the POSIX replacement to select()/poll()?

I'm designing a library using POSIX that needs to sit on a few FDs and wake up when data is available. Just like select() and poll() have done for me for years. But now I gotta be ...
Ars Technica

What is POSIX?

I have been under the misaprehension that it meant that W2K would accept unix commands. But since I started playing around in Mac OS X's terminal, I've found that W2K only recognizes dos commands ...
ZDNet

fill in the blank) as POSIX Compatible

First of all I am not a POSIX specialist. I can't really claim to be a Windows 7 expert, yet. Thanks to Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX; I can say that ...
InfoWorld

Symbian annouces support for Posix

Symbian is hoping to encourage developers to offer interesting desktop applications on mobile phones by making it easier for them to certain port desktop applications to the Symbian operating system.
Computer Weekly

CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity

The endless capacity of cloud object storage with Posix-compatible file access – that’s the promise of CunoFS, from Cambridge-based PetaGene, which aims to resolve the increasingly widespread ...
Electronic Design

Proprietary RTOS APIs Impede Development

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...