Posix governs interoperability, portability, and in other areas such as the usage and mechanism of fork, permissions and filesystem standards such as /etc, /var, /usr and so on . Hence, when developers write a program under a Posix compliant system such as for example Linux, it is generally, not always, guaranteed to run on another posix compliant system such as IBM's AIX system or other commercial variants of Unix. Posix is a good thing to have as such it eases the software development for maximum portability which it strives for. Hope this answer makes sense.

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该标准为类unix操作系统提供了一个公共基础。它指定了shell应该如何工作，期望从ls和grep等命令中得到什么，以及C作者期望可用的一些C库。

例如，这里详细地指定了命令行用户用来将命令串在一起的管道，这意味着C的popen(管道打开)函数是posix标准的，而不是ISO C标准的。

POSIX代表可移植操作系统接口(Portable Operating System Interface)，是IEEE为促进应用程序可移植性而设计的标准。POSIX是一个厂商联盟试图创建UNIX的单一标准版本。

Posix governs interoperability, portability, and in other areas such as the usage and mechanism of fork, permissions and filesystem standards such as /etc, /var, /usr and so on . Hence, when developers write a program under a Posix compliant system such as for example Linux, it is generally, not always, guaranteed to run on another posix compliant system such as IBM's AIX system or other commercial variants of Unix. Posix is a good thing to have as such it eases the software development for maximum portability which it strives for. Hope this answer makes sense.

感谢Jed Smith和Tinkertim指出我的错误——我的错!!：(

Posix更像是一个操作系统，它是一个“操作系统标准”。你可以把它想象成一个虚构的操作系统，它实际上并不存在，但它有一个文档。这些论文是由IEEE定义的“posix标准”，IEEE是美国的大型标准组织。 实现该规范的操作系统是“posix兼容的”。

政府法规在投资中更倾向于posix兼容的解决方案，因此posix兼容具有显著的财务优势，特别是对于美国的大型IT公司。

一个完全兼容posix的操作系统的回报是，它可以保证无缝地编译和运行所有兼容posix的应用程序。

Linux是最著名的。OSX、Solaris、NetBSD和Windows NT也可以在这里使用。Free和OpenBSD只是“几乎”兼容posix。WinNT的posix-compliance只是避免上述政府监管的伪解决方案。

POSIX是一种操作系统标准，旨在使编写跨平台软件变得更容易。这在Unix世界中是一件特别重要的事情。