Top "Posix" questions

What is the equivalent to Posix popen() in the Win32 API?

Is there a rough equivalent to the Linux/Unix stdio.h popen() function in the Win32 API? If so, where …

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Is OSX a POSIX OS?

What is it that makes an OS a POSIX system? All versions of Linux are POSIX, right? What about OSX?

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Write/Read to/from FIFO files - linux

I've been trying to wrap my head around FIFO, and came up with a simple program of server and client. …

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Difference between C standard library and C POSIX library

I'm a little confused by "C standard lib" and "C POSIX lib", because I found that, many header files defined …

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Set and Oldset in sigprocmask()

I haven't completely understood, how to use sigprocmask(). Particularly, how the set and oldset and its syntax work and how …

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what is posix compliance for filesystem?

Posix compliance is a standard that is been followed by many a companies. I have few question around this area, 1. …

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Checking if errno != EINTR: what does it mean?

I've found this piece of code used several times (also a similar one where it's used open() instead of write()). …

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boost::this_thread::sleep() vs. nanosleep()?

I recently came across the need to sleep the current thread for an exact period of time. I know of …

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Is it possible (and safe) to make an accepting socket non-blocking?

I'm looking for a way to interrupt an accept() call on a blocking socket. Using signals is not an option, …

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NPM package 'bin' script for Windows

Cucumber.js is supplying a command-line "binary" which is a simple .js file containing a shebang instruction: #!/usr/bin/env …

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