ANSI/POSIX Environment

The ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE) is a compatibility subsystem for the Plan 9 operating system, that implements an interface close to ANSI C and POSIX, with some common extensions (the native Plan 9 C interfaces conform to neither standard). It also includes a POSIX-compatible shell.

APE's authors claim to have used it to port the X Window System (X11) to Plan 9, although they do not ship X11 "because supporting it properly is too big a job".[1]

References

  1. ^ Trickey, Howard. "APE — The ANSI/POSIX Environment". Plan 9 — The Documents (Volume 2). Bell Labs. Retrieved 2011-04-27. 
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