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		jrockway on May 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things Unix can do atomically The "POSIX spec" makes for a completely unusable UNIX, so I'm not sure why anyone would care what it says.

JoachimSchipper on May 12, 2010 [–]

Because all the world is not Linux.

jrockway on May 12, 2010 | [–]

And even less of the world is POSIX.

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