JSR for a gnu.posix or javax.posix API ?

Mon Mar 29 11:25:00 GMT 2004

I think one of the major shortcomings of Java is that there's
no optional POSIX API even though POSIX support is a very common
feature of many operating systems, including windows.
Is anybody interested to join an effort to write a POSIX API
for Java (originally for GCJ, later for Sun Java) and put it
through the JCP process?
What I'd like to implement are filedescriptors that can be
inherited to sub processes, Pseudo TTYs, unix domain sockets,
chdir, shared memory, signal handling, setsid, getpid, common
access to a process list (ps), etc ...
Bernhard