unixism: n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends
on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low
process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems.
Common unixisms include: gratuitous use of `fork(2)'; the
assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix
libraries such as `stdio(3)' are supported elsewhere; reliance on
obscure side-effects of system calls (use of `sleep(2)' with a 0
argument to clue 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 fragmentation problems
won't arise from never `free()'ing memory. Compare vaxocentrism;
see also New Jersey.
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