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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 06:07:44 JST Rich Felker

   @hipsterelectron Unfortunately there are two philosophies here:

   1. POSIX is one of "many" types of platforms, special-cased like "all" the others.

   2. POSIX is the agreed-upon standard for how software interfaces with the operating system, and on the ONE system that doesn't at least try to provide it, you patch things up as needed.

   Unfortunately Rust seems to be in camp 1...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 06:16:19 JST Rich Felker

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     • LisPi

     @lispi314 @hipsterelectron Sorry I can't be bothered to reply to repeated delete-and-redraft. Doesn't your instance have edit if needed??

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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 06:16:20 JST LisPi

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     @dalias @hipsterelectron The first one is the objectively correct one. (This doesn't prevent POSIX-specific libraries.)
     
     POSIX's ambient authority is an awful sight.