Unixism

plural Unixisms

1. informalcomputingAn idiom or behaviour that is characteristic of the Unix operating system.

   Another common Unixism that causes problems on Windows is the use of the select() function.

   2000, Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python programming on Win32, page 35

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   Note the term fork/exec is a Unixism that describes the way many applications first fork a child process and then use the exec system command to start another process.

   2006, Joshua B. Smith, Practical OCaml, page 275