That's funny, as just yesterday I assigned to my O.S. students the following
reading:
Atlidakis V, Andrus J, Geambasu R, Mitropoulos D, Nieh J. POSIX has become
outdated. ;login:. 2016;41(3):6–11.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine.pdf
> Hi,
>
> libfixposix, like gnulib, attempts to bridge over portability problems
> and adds utility data structures.
> https://github.com/sionescu/libfixposix/tree/master/src/lib
>
> Things it has but gnulib doesn't have:
> - emulation
> - sendfile
> -
> - O_CLOEXEC support for sockets
