Have you read the whole thing? Have you ever seen a complete implementation? Hell, have you ever seen a standard that doesn't suck?
Pthreads, locales, mmap, sockets, ioctl, select/poll, ... and that is without going into all the hideous api details that even saner parts of the spec are full of. uriel On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jacob Todd <jaketodd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see people saying this all of the time, but never an explanation. > Could you elaborate why posix is a piece of shit? > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Uriel wrote: >> The only problem is that PoSix is a piece of shit. >> >> uriel >> >> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Kurt H Maier <karmaf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > http://libposix.sourceforge.net/ >> > >> > It's an implementation of POSIX 2008 -- and nothing else! ??This is the >> > sort of thing we can use to build a suckless coreutils package, in my >> > opinion. >> > >> > -- >> > # Kurt H Maier >> > >> > >> > > -- > Jake Todd > >
