On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:58:43 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> Windows isn't POSIX compliant. >> >> Technically, Windows is POSIX compliant. You have to turn off a bunch >> of features, turn on another bunch of features, and what you get is the >> bare minimum POSIX compliance possible, but it's enough to tick the >> check box for POSIX compliance. > > Really? I didn't know that Windows path names were POSIX compliant. Or > do you have to use the Cygwin fudge to count Windows as POSIX? And what > about POSIX signal handling? > > Citation needed, big-time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463220.aspx https://brianreiter.org/2010/08/24/the-sad-history-of-the-microsoft-posix- subsystem/ -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
