| Unixism A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on systems. Common s include: gratuitous use of ""; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as "" are supported elsewhere; reliance on obscure side-effects of (use of "sleep" with a 0 argument to tell the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that problems won't arise from never freeing memory. Compare . See also . [] (1995-02-27) |