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Acronym for __P__ortable __O__perating __S__ystem __I__nterface Uni__X__.
-[ISO]/IEC 9945 / IEEE Std 1003.1-1988.
+[ISO]/IEC 9945 / [
IEEE]
Std 1003.1-1988.
An attempt to define a standard interface for all [UNIX] systems from different vendors and fight the "[BSD] vs. System V" split and the tendency of commercial operating systems to fragment and diverge.
POSIX is a large (some might even say unwieldy) standard (officially [IEEE] Standard 1003) specifying things such as the behaviour (arguments, etc) of standard programs and utilities that must exist on a system and [C] library functions. The theory is that if you write a program that conforms to POSIX standards, it will compile and run on any POSIX-compliant operating system.
