Unixism
English
Etymology
Unix + -ism
Noun
Unixism (plural Unixisms)
- (computing, informal) An idiom or behaviour that is characteristic of the Unix operating system.
- 2000, Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python programming on Win32 (page 35)
- Another common Unixism that causes problems on Windows is the use of the
select()
function.
- Another common Unixism that causes problems on Windows is the use of the
- 2006, Joshua B. Smith, Practical OCaml, page 275:
- 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.
- 2000, Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python programming on Win32 (page 35)