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[[!meta title="POSIX compatibility"]]
+Many computer operating systems strive to be POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) compliant, as it makes cross-compiling and program portability much easier than having to package something for every new distribution.
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Is it favorable of rather a hindrance to be compatible to POSIX and similar
standards?
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their users) may not even notice this, but we would avoid a lot of overhead
that comes with wrapping the [[Hurd interfaces|hurd/interface]] to be POSIX
compliant.
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+# External
+* The Open Groups [POSIX Specification](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/)
+* Wikipedia [article on POSIX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX)