Is OSX a POSIX OS?
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What is it that makes an OS a POSIX system? All versions of Linux are POSIX, right? What about OSX?
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Solution 1 - Linux
Yes. POSIX is a group of standards that determine a portable API for Unix-like operating systems. Mac OSX is Unix-based (and has been certified as such), and in accordance with this is POSIX compliant. POSIX guarantees that certain system calls will be available.
Essentially, Mac satisfies the API required to be POSIX compliant, which makes it a POSIX OS.
All versions of Linux are not POSIX-compliant. Kernel versions prior to 2.6 were not compliant, and today Linux isn't officially POSIX-compliant because they haven't gone out of their way to get certified (which will likely never happen). Regardless, Linux can be treated as a POSIX system for almost all intents and purposes.
Solution 2 - Linux
Yes, OS X is based on Darwin BSD, and since 10.5 (Leopard - 18-May-2007) all Intel/AMD versions have been officially certified as compliant with the Unix 03 / POSIX standard eg.
Solution 3 - Linux
No, it is not. MacOS is missing a whole bunch of features of POSIX, like clock_nanosleep()
. It might be compliant with a subset of POSIX or with a really really old version of POSIX, but it's definitely not compliant with POSIX.1-2017. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock_nanosleep.html.
Solution 4 - Linux
POSIX is a specification: http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/single_unix_specification.html AFAIK, Linux adheres to the spec, but hasn't certified yet
Solution 5 - Linux
OSX POSIX
SUS
- Single UNIX Specification. It is a set of standards to use UNIX
mark.
POSIX
- Portable Operating System Interface. It is a subset of SUS
. It defines API between OS and application as long as others tools and utilities. It includes such parts as Process, IO, Threads, security, Shell
UNIX 03
is a Product Standard mark which conforms SUS
version 3
Latest Apple Inc UNIX products
MAC OS(since 10.5 Leopard) is a UNIX 03
compliant OS which is certified by The Open Group.
Linux
is a general name of a core for others operating system.
Linux is not POSIX-certified(except some of them like Huawei EulerOS - UNIX 03). But Linux is mostly POSIX-compliant because they try to stick to these standards and even more