Storage isn’t just storage. There is block storage, file storage and, more recently, object storage. And only two of those three are Posix-compliant. That’s not something most users ever need to know ...

I'm designing a library using POSIX that needs to sit on a few FDs and wake up when data is available. Just like select() and poll() have done for me for years. But now I gotta be ...

First of all I am not a POSIX specialist. I can't really claim to be a Windows 7 expert, yet. Thanks to Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX; I can say that ...