Enberg, Pekka JRao, AshwinCrowcroft, JonTarkoma, Sasu2022-12-122022-12-122022-09Enberg, P J, Rao, A, Crowcroft, J & Tarkoma, S 2022, 'Transcending POSIX: The End of an Era?', ;login:. < https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending-posix-end-era >ORCID: /0000-0001-9792-2199/work/124842020http://hdl.handle.net/10138/351602In this article, we provide a holistic view of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) abstractions by a systematic review of their historical evolution. We discuss some of the key factors that drove the evolution and identify the pitfalls that make them infeasible when building modern applications.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessComputer and information sciencesArticleopenAccess25e0eac5-febf-4853-8a69-e704e7cd00d6