Nemo Nusquam via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>:
> I cannot agree.  Many developers ensure that their software runs under 
> their particular distribution and then call it POSIX. Porting to UNIX 
> systems, such as Solaris or macOS, can be difficult and tedious.  (Of 
> course, this is not a Linux issue.)

It's especially frustrating when, after having put in the work, projects refuse 
even trivial patches for Solaris and derrivatives or sometimes even BSDs 
because 'who uses that anyway'. (I include the patches in pkgsrc instead.)

Sijmen

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