On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:42 PM, James Cameron<quozl at us.netrek.org> wrote:
>
> No.  All current servers run on Linux.  We should use the latest POSIX
> APIs that Linux supports.  I don't think we should use Linux specific
> APIs without good reason and graceful degradation when they are
> absent.

Some relevant sites I found:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/
http://www.unix.org/version3/iso_std.html
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Specifications
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm
http://www.linuxbase.org/
http://isotc.iso.org/
http://www.jtc1-sc7.org/
http://www.pasc.org/plato/
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/posix/
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html

Zach