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adrianxw
02-25-2002, 05:41 AM
Does anybody know if Linux, (any distrib), is POSIX compliant? If so, does it support POSIX.4 and pthreads?
starX
02-25-2002, 10:30 AM
the definition of linux that my CS textbooks seemed to favor is "linux is a POSIX complient UNIX like operating system." So, at the very least, it SHOULD be POSIX compliant.

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rohit
02-25-2002, 10:34 AM
yes it is posix compliant install the library and compile with
your compiler with "-lpthread"