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Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2009 11:25:28 +0100
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2009/8/4 C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>:
>>they emphatically don't go for posix semantics...
>
> what are "posix semantics"?

perhaps wrongly, i'd assumed that the posix standard
implied some semantics in defining its file API, and
ron was referring to those. perhaps it defines less
than i assume - i've not studied it.

i was alluding to this sentence from the paper:

: GFS provides a familiar =EF=AC=81le system interface, though it
: does not implement a standard API such as POSIX.