API and Utility

Differences for AIX and Linux

30 March 2001

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Overview

This document is intended to aid application developers and users when moving between Linux and AIX, or when writing code on Linux that is intended for eventual deployment on AIX. This document only describes compatibility at the source level.

This document is based on:

This document should be viewed only as a source of information.  It does not represent a commitment by IBM either to modify AIX, nor to implement/not implement those functions that were found to be incompatible.

 

1) AIX/Linux Utilities Differences

2) AIX/Linux API Differences