The POSIX terminal interface is the generalized abstraction, comprising both an application programming interface for programs, and a set of behavioural...
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The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX; IPA: /ˈpɒz.ɪks/) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility...
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degrees of mode support when terminals are used as computer terminals. The POSIX terminal interface, as provided by Unix and POSIX-compliant operating systems...
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a terminal as historically available in Seventh Edition Unix. It has been largely superseded by the POSIX terminal interface. The terminal interface provided...
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and so forth) keystrokes. In Unix and other POSIX-compliant systems that support the POSIX terminal interface, these capabilities are encoded in databases...
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Bash (Unix shell) (section Portability with POSIX)
various computing environments. As a command-line interface (CLI), Bash operates within a terminal emulator, or text window, where users input commands...
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Platypus. Darwin is mostly POSIX-compatible, but has never, by itself, been certified as compatible with any version of POSIX. Starting with Leopard, macOS...
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commands of the most recent version of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) – IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 which is part of the Single UNIX Specification...
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Pseudoterminal (redirect from Pseudo terminal)
V-style terminals (commonly referred as UNIX 98 pseudoterminals) and provides POSIX and the Single Unix Specification API in the form of a posix_openpt()...
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The C POSIX library is a specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems. It was developed at the same time as the ANSI C standard. Some effort...
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command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with software via commands – each formatted as a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged in...
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Signal (IPC) (redirect from SIGINT (POSIX))
inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous notification sent...
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Single UNIX Specification (category POSIX)
(also registered as ISO/IEC 9945), or POSIX.1-1988, which loosely stands for Portable Operating System Interface. The X/Open Portability Guide (XPG) was...
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Pg (Unix) (category Terminal pagers)
command via a pipe. pg uses an interface similar to vi, but commands are different. As of 2018, pg has been removed from the POSIX specification, but is still...
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integration of Windows-based applications. The terminal emulator mintty is the default command-line interface provided to interact with the environment. The...
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Read (system call) (redirect from Read (POSIX))
of bytes to be read from the file. The read system call interface is standardized by the POSIX specification. Data from a file is read by calling the read...
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Unix shell (redirect from POSIX shell)
a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive command...
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associated with the input device of a terminal (or pseudo terminal) which is ultimately linked to a user's keyboard. On POSIX systems, the file descriptor for...
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provide POSIX compliant interface when the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, but otherwise offers a superset to the standard interface. For example...
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from the POSIX chair Andrew Josey for the symbolic price of one dollar.[citation needed] There have been some activities to make Linux POSIX-compliant...
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Echo (computing) (section Terminal emulators)
device drivers and so forth. In Unix and POSIX-compatible systems, echo is a flag in the POSIX terminal interface, settable programmatically with the tcsetattr()...
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Mintty (category Free terminal emulators)
written in C. The POSIX API provided by Cygwin is used to communicate with processes running within mintty, while its user interface is implemented using...
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Command (computing) (category User interfaces)
an external interface that directs the behavior of a computer program. Commonly, commands are sent to a program via a command-line interface, a script,...
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curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. The name is a pun on the...
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Ncurses (section Terminal database)
programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals; it is written in a way that attempts to optimize...
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OpenVMS (section POSIX compatibility)
provided tools for creating text-based user interface applications – the Form Management System (FMS) and Terminal Data Management System (TDMS), later succeeded...
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IBM 3270 (redirect from 3270 terminal)
high speed proprietary communications interface, using coaxial cable. IBM no longer manufactures 3270 terminals, but the IBM 3270 protocol is still commonly...
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widespread use. The Unix programming interface became the basis for a widely implemented operating system interface standard (POSIX, see above). The C programming...
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Process group (category POSIX)
In a POSIX-conformant operating system, a process group denotes a collection of one or more processes. Among other things, a process group is used to...
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Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2010. "POSIX "ps"". IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition. Matt Buchanan (2010-04-29). "Giz Explains:...
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