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unixism
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n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected
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multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that
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exists on virtual-memory Unix systems. Common unixisms include: gratuitous
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use of fork (2) ; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known
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features of Unix libraries such as stdio (3) are supported elsewhere;
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reliance on obscure side-effects of system calls (use of sleep (2) with a 0
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argument to clue the scheduler that you're willing to give up your
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time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is
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zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from
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never free () ing memory. Compare vaxocentrism ; see also New Jersey.
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