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POSIX compliance

POSIX compliance

Posted Nov 23, 2012 14:35 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: POSIX compliance by njs
Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD

Apple is just conservative. It's easier to say "it doesn't work" then to deal with developers using something that works only accidentally.

In particular, important parts of OS X are fork-safe. Moreover, OS X has support for code confinement and process isolation.


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