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Do you really NEED such an API?

Posted Mar 17, 2009 21:30 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Better than POSIX? by ssam
Parent article: Better than POSIX?

Ted gave interesting answer to this request which I really like: why will your program need such an API? Your system needs such a API - and it's not that hard to implement...

Yes, it'll probably violate POSIX's letter but it'll give much better results in practice.

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