Notices by Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin) tagged posix
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 03:42:57 EDT 
Joshua Judson Rosen
A new way (or a #GNU way...) to feel #olde: "why, I remember when all these #POSIX standard features were still GNU-specific!" -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 03:15:24 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
I do love the origin story for the #POSIX #name, from #rms:
«The committee put on "IEEEIX" as the concise name. I did not think that was a good choice. It is ugly to pronounce—it would sound like a scream of terror, "Ayeee!" …» -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2014 16:46:42 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
%z "does not appear in the #Posix specification" for strftime? Not in 1997 it didn't, but it sure did in 2009 (and even in 2001). -
Joshua Judson Rosen
Project Potpourri: A Professional Technical Conversation
How to determine whether a command exists, portably.
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2011 07:56:42 EST
Joshua Judson Rosen
@drysdam, yeah--think #posix; Guile tends to use the same terms as the standard C library.
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