Irix and OS X are POSIX systems because they are fully-POSIX-compliant. However, operating systems like FreeBSD, Haiku, and GNU/Linux, for example, are mostly-POSIX-compliant. Can people still correctly refer to such systems as POSIX systems?
Are mostly POSIX-compliant systems still considered POSIX systems?
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No. The Open Group has an actual POSIX certification process, so if an operating system hasn't been through that, it cannot be referred to as POSIX-compliant.