Top "Posix" questions

POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) is a set of standards defining programming APIs, a command interpreter, and common utilities for Unix-like operating systems.

In Posix how is type dev_t getting used?

What I am after is the meaning of such type and what interface can use it. It is explained in …

c posix stat
Arrays in a POSIX compliant shell

According to this reference sheet on hyperpolyglot.org, the following syntax can be used to set an array. i=(1 2 3) But …

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What is POSIX, any other interface standards which can replace it?

I was confused by the numerous standards and interfaces for C and C++ programming. There's ANSI C, ISO C, GLIBC, …

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Which systems define EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK as different values?

Just curious. Which systems providing both EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK #define them as different values?

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Writing programs to cope with I/O errors causing lost writes on Linux

TL;DR: If the Linux kernel loses a buffered I/O write, is there any way for the application to …

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How do i remove a signal handler

I've made the follow signal handler struct sigaction pipeIn; pipeIn.sa_handler = updateServer; sigemptyset(&pipeIn.sa_mask); sa.sa_…

c posix signal-handling
Maven assembly-plugin "group id '1377585961' is too big" error

I'm trying to understand why only one (new) MacBookPro in our dev-team, running OS-X 10.10.5, is having a problem completing the …

maven posix maven-assembly-plugin
Differences between <semaphore.h> and <sys/sem.h>

What are the differences between the functions included in <semaphore.h> and <sys/sem.h>? Does …

c posix semaphore
Sigaction and porting Linux code to Windows

I am trying to port caffe (developed for Linux) source code to Windows environment. The problem is at sigaction structure …

c++ linux posix caffe sigaction
Segmentation fault with Posix-C program using mmap and mapfile

Well I have this program and I get a segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped). After lots of checks I get this …

c mapping posix map-files