Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:32:26 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:

On 6/7/24 06:46, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:31:01 +0200, David Brown wrote:
 

But many people have lots of use of programming in C without any kind
of POSIX functionality ...

 
And all those same programs work in the presence of POSIX
functionality,

 
Even those that rely upon some other operating system's corresponding
functionality instead?

If it really was “corresponding”, then it would already be available via
some POSIX-compatible wrapper for that OS.

... POSIX is not the be-all and end-all of operating systems.

You’re right. It’s not. Linux is.