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What is Posix?
POSIX may seem like a strange name, and that's because it is an acronym that stands for Portable Operating System Interface for uniX. Essentially POSIX consists of a group of documents that provide IEEE standards for Unix software compatibi... Read More »
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What does POSIX stand for?
Portable Operating System Interface for Unix Read More »
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How to suspend thread in posix?
FROM: http://www.redhat.com/devnet/whitepapers/solaris_port/c1347.html The thr_suspend() function is stops the thread specified by a parameter. This is a big problem since the function cannot take into account mutex and other synchroniz... Read More »
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Originally, the name "POSIX" referred to IEEE Std 1003.1-1988, released in 1988. The family of POSIX standards is formally designated as IEEE 1003 and the ... More »
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POSIX was originally known as IEEE-IX (named for IEEE's reference UNIX implementation). The term POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman in response to an IEEE request for a memorable name. Source(s): http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/... Read More »
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It would appear that all Linux distros before kernel 2.6 were not POSIX complaint - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat... I am not sure of any current distros that are not compliant since it was a very big goal of glibc and others for many ye... Read More »
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The POSIX module doesn't exist under Win32 Perl, because: - Win95 doesn't have the foggiest clue about POSIX - WinNT is aware of POSIX, but has brain-damage - no one's bothered to build an emulation layer for Win32-Perl This may change with... Read More »
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A new explanation can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX It is OS-independent standard that can be implemented anywhere. I believe there is any implementation for Windows as well. Read More »
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There is a thread manager class that you can use to control threads, suspend continue, kill etc etc. You can find it on sourceforge. You can look at the source code to make sure it is safe first, OR you can suspend thread by making them w... Read More »
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