The Single UNIX Specification Version 2 specifies the sprintf's format '-flag behavior as: The integer portion of the result of a decimal conversion (%i, %d, %u, %f, %g or %G) will be formatted ...

What do POSIX and other standards say about the situation where multiple threads are doing poll() or select() calls on a single socket or pipe handle at the same time? If any data arrives, does o...

I am trying to make use of the self-pipe trick to get a portable implementation (across Solaris, MacOSX, Linux, BSDs) of my application. So in addition to the two pipes for stderr and stdout which...