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What does uni mean in unistd.h

Does it mean unix? or universal?
What is it?

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The stuff in there is largely Unix-idiom (chown, fork, gethostname, nice), so I'm guessing that it originally did mean Unix. It's part of the POSIX standard, though, so it's no longer just Unix.

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