Unixism

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

Noun

  1. An 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:
    • 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:

Origin

From Unix + -ism.

Forms

Unixisms