POSIX - AshokBhat/notes GitHub Wiki

About

• Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
• Family of standards by the IEEE Computer Society
• For maintaining compatibility between UNIX like operating systems

Contents

• Application programming interface (API)
• Command line shells
• Utility interfaces
• ...

OS status

POSIX-certified

• macOS (since 10.5 Leopard)
• Solaris
• ...

Mostly POSIX-compliant

• Android (Available through Android NDK)
• Linux (most distributions)
• OpenBSD
• ...

POSIX for Microsoft Windows

• Cygwin - Mostly POSIX-compliant
• MinGW - A fork of Cygwin - A less POSIX-compliant development environment