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Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 8, 2012 0:07 UTC (Thu) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
In reply to: Wine 1.4 released by JoeBuck
Parent article: Wine 1.4 released

Does Linux emulate the POSIX API? Or does it implement the POSIX API?

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Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 8, 2012 1:32 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

I have been told that unless it is evaluated and confirmed by some specific agencies.. Linux emulates POSIX versus implements it :).

Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 8, 2012 21:53 UTC (Thu) by dpquigl (subscriber, #52852) [Link]

Linux loosely implements POSIX so I would say that it does emulate it instead. There are even times where Linux has gone against POSIX when it feels that a better implementation is available.