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Unixism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Unix + -ism.

Meanings

1. (informal) An idiom or behaviour that is characteristic of the Unix operating system.
   • Note the term fork/exec is a Unixism that describes the way many applications first fork a child process and then use the exec system command to start another process. 2006, Joshua B. Smith, Practical OCaml, page 275:
   • Another common Unixism that causes problems on Windows is the use of the select() function. 2000, Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python programming on Win32, page 35:

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