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It absolutely is, and has been for a long time. I find it very hard to keep track of the various standards, but things got a lot simpler with v3 of the Single Unix Specification, which is the same as POSIX 2001[0].

The problem is that SUS and POSIX only define a subset of what's wanted by most modern software and a subset of the tools people need to interacting with the system. It's a double-edged sword, though: if we always stuck to what was common to all Unix-like systems, we wouldn't have lots of important OS features.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#2001:...




> [I]f we always stuck to what was common to all Unix-like systems, we wouldn't have lots of important OS features.

Like seriously....It ain't even funny.

:-|

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/au...




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